Summer 2025 Sea Star
The newest issue of our biannual magazine is here!
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to share about our research, outreach and education programs through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
The summer 2025 issue is, unofficially, the “salmon issue,” with five feature stories highlighting the rich variety of WSG’s work through the study, stewardship and harvest of one of Washington state’s most important and iconic fishes.
From boat to plate The newly revised Seafood Direct Marketing Manual helps seafood harvesters dive into direct-to-consumer sales
From the Summer 2025 Sea Star
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator
Starting a business is no easy feat — especially when you throw in the unpredictable nature of boat maintenance, weather, catches and wholesale prices.
New report shares Northwest coastal Tribes’ needs and barriers in adapting to climate change
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) co-led with University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group and the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians a new report sharing Northwest coastal tribes’ needs and barriers as they work to adapt to climate change.
Read moreSummer 2024 Sea Star
The newest issue of our biannual magazine is here!
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to share about our research, outreach and education programs through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
The summer 2024 issue includes four feature stories highlighting the rich variety of WSG’s work.
Winter 2023-24 Sea Star
The new issue of our biannual magazine is here!
Catch up on Washington Sea Grant’s (WSG) recent research, outreach and education programs across the state through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
Summer 2023 Sea Star
Read the new issue of our biannual magazine
Catch up on Washington Sea Grant’s (WSG) recent research, outreach and education programs across the state through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
The summer 2023 issue includes five in-depth feature stories covering a breadth of WSG’s work.
Newly expanded and revised, ‘Heaven on the Half Shell’ tells the story of the oyster in the Pacific Northwest
The second edition of this classic text is now in bookstores
From the Summer 2023 Sea Star
Generations of oyster farmers have weathered many challenges to continue the harvest. Their stories are braided together with significant history that have defined the modern-day Pacific Northwest: the arrival of white settlers intent on capitalizing on the rich natural resources, World War II and its effects on Japanese Americans, the Fish Wars of the 1970s that led to the landmark court cases that affirmed rights held by treaty tribes in Washington.
Sea Gardens Across the Pacific in Signals Magazine
Indigenous peoples have been stewarding the ocean for thousands of years. This stewardship has appeared in many different forms around the world, all of which represent a reciprocal relationship between humans and the sea rooted in deep place-based knowledge.
Read moreAutumn 2022 Sea Star
Our biannual magazine, now with an updated and expanded format
Catch up on Washington Sea Grant’s recent research, outreach and education programs across the state through Sea Star, our biannual magazine.
Sea levels are rising in Washington. What will the shorelines of the future be like?
A new report from the Washington Coastal Resilience Project evaluates the trade-offs between various strategies to manage the impacts of sea level rise
As sea levels continue to rise, coastal hazards such as flooding and erosion will become increasingly common.