Salish Sea

Salish Sea (49˚30'00" 124˚00'00" Includes Str of Georgia, Juan de Fuca Str and Puget Sd). In 1990, Bert Webber, a US marine sciences professor, proposed a unified name for the bodies of water—Str of Georgia (qv), Juan de Fuca Str (qv) and Puget Sd—straddling the Canada-US border on the Pacific coast. His suggestion, Salish Sea, was turned down brusquely at the time by Washington state and BC governments. The idea refused to disappear, however, and was raised again on a broader scale in...

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