On Friday, June 14, 2019, Nikki Wright of SeaChange came to Metchosin to address the Talk and Walk group. A rapt audience listened to her talk about the importance of eelgrass beds, the meadows of the sea, in maintaining ocean diversit
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We still have eelgrass beds in Metchosin, Nikki explained. But they are threatened. About 13% of Metchosin’s 46 kilometres of shoreline has undergone serious anthropogenic modification.
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Nikki spoke about the work that is being done through SeaChange to restore some of the compromised eelgrass beds along the Salish Sea.