TIDE Magazine - March/April 2019

Building Conservation Trust – Project Highlight
High Hopes for Puget Sound Oyster Project

CCA Washington and Building Conservation Trust (BCT), CCA’s national marine habitat program, are part of a collaborative program helping to restore oysters in Puget Sound in order to improve fisheries and water quality. With their ability to filter toxins and sediments from the water, oysters play a vital role in the Puget Sound ecosystem and also provide excellent habitat for juvenile salmonids and bait fish.

A Texas Icon
Text and Photo by Pat Murray
When looking at the anatomy of redfish, its blunt nose and heavy scalesmake you think of a species best suited for jagged jetty rocks and baracke encrusted pier pilings. Indeed, those are viable habitats for redfish, but their ability to go ultra-skinny in the backs of marash ponds and on bonefish-worthy grass flats is what lands them on the covers of fishing magazines through the states.

Gallery Feature – Anastasia Musick
Creating artwork using a diverse set of non-digital mediasuch as oils, acrylics, watercolor, graphite and charcoal, Anastasia Musick was trained in each not by way of an art school, but by hands-on, technical training.

Fish in the Fast Lane
Text and Photos By Charlie Levine
After I hit 40, my vision went from bad to worse, but even I could see the large log floating on the horizon. We were 20-something miles offshore, the seas were calm and the skies were clear. Conditions could not have been any better, and then we spotted this large chunk of a tree bobbing in the long-period swells.

Backbone of the Bight
Text by Gundy Gunderson
In a scene that plays out just about every night off the coast of Southeren California in the summertime, crews man skiffs and purse seines to supply the live bait fishery on a scale that would surprise anglers in other regions of the country.

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