Session Coordinator: Marisa McGrew, Wiyot Tribe

 

This session will cover the often unsung fish heroes that share the salmon space in the nearshore environment, estuaries, and rivers. Speaker topics include green sturgeon presence along the North Coast; night smelt meals with the Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation; lamprey population dynamics; that tiny, picky tidewater goby; and the suckers that you snorkel past, amongst other topics. This session will force you to remove the salmon goggles and learn about the other fish that, let's be honest, you've often wondered, "huh, what's the deal with them?" People will walk away from this session with new considerations of who else is occupying the salmon space and how to incorporate them into projects.