Pre-registration is required for this event.
Visit the event website for more information: Boater Workshop: Anticipating 2025 Vessel Regulations
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and its Orca Regulations Communications Advisory (ORCA) Group is looking for input from the Salish Sea recreational boater community to inform its education, outreach, and communications work related to Southern Resident killer whales (SRKW) and related vessel regulations (as directed by the Washington State Legislature in the 2023-24 Senate Bill 5371). Your perspectives will ground this important work in reality and lead to more effective communication that will ultimately support SRKW recovery.
Vessel regulations being implemented in 2025 may raise many questions for boaters. Join this workshop to learn about the upcoming regulations and actions you can take this boating season to prepare for the change, and to share your concerns and communication suggestions through small-group discussions.
Notice of Photography and/or Videography. When you attend this event, you enter an area where photography and/or videography (which includes audio recording) may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to such photography and/or videography and their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. If you prefer not to have your photo and/or video taken, please inform WDFW staff immediately upon arrival. Staff will provide a sticker or tape for you to wear. You must wear the sticker/tape at all times. WDFW will make an effort to edit or remove any photos and/or video of you in which the sticker/tape is present. Any photos and/or videos posted in error will be immediately edited or removed upon request.
Due to the nature of audio recording that is a necessary part of videography, WDFW cannot warrant that outside/ambient audio from other individuals won’t be captured and released as part of said videography. All parties attending such an event consent to WDFW using such outside/ambient audio recording as part of any videography process.