Week 4 - September 28-October 2, 2020
Living things need nutrients and the Estuary at the mouth of the Courtenay River, what we now call Comox Harbour, contains a “perfect storm” of nutrients. Dissolved and suspended organics, inorganics fish carcasses and more float down from the mountains and forests to settle in the ocean. At the same time deep ocean nutrients well up from the depths of the Salish Sea and are driven into the arrowhead shaped bay by South-Easterly winter storms and flooding tides. The environment of this saline estuary has been a magnet for spawning Herring and Salmon for thousands of years and is the reason the first people of this place called it K'omoks, the land of plenty.
Assessment
1) Water Management perspectives, 2) Filters, 3) Estuary Fish Traps, 4) Tsolum Study
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