Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
The Salish Sea is a 17,000 square kilometer ecosystem with a haphazardly drawn dividing line directly through its center. While that line (the United States/Canada border) is largely imaginary, it is a serious hindrance on the conservation and study of the ecosystem as a whole.
In Washington state they called it Puget Sound and in Canada they called it the Georgia Basin. It wasn’t until 2009 that the whole ecosystem was given an all-encompassing name.
The Salish Sea is a 17,000 square kilometer ecosystem with a haphazardly drawn dividing line directly through its center. While that line (the United States/Canada border) is largely imaginary, it is a serious hindrance on the conservation and study of the ecosystem as a whole.
In Washington state they called it Puget Sound and in Canada they called it the Georgia Basin. It wasn’t until 2009 that the whole ecosystem was given an all-encompassing name.
