July 5th Beach Cleanup

The annual post-July 4 beach cleanup is scheduled for Tuesday July 5 from 9am – noon in Westport and Grayland beaches. Community groups, Twin Harbor State Park, and local businesses are joining to encourage everyone to clean up the debris that often gets left behind from fireworks, bonfires and other Read more…

Ahoy, Matey! Pirate Daze this Weekend!

Ocean Companies is proud to be the Main Stage Sponsor for this year’s Westport Pirate Daze. A three-day festival of fun honoring all things Pirate. This year marks the 9th Annual Rusty Scupper Pirate Days which takes place Friday June 24th thru Sunday June 26th. Pirate crews will come ashore Read more…

Great News: Far Fewer global fish stocks are collapsed or overfished than thought, says UW study

SeafoodNews_FishingStocksUWStudy SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [seafoodnews.com] April 29, 2011 A major new study by Dr. Trevor Branch and colleagues at the University of Washington shows that estimates of collapsed and overfished stocks may be exaggerated. Branch, writing in the Journal of Conservation Biology, argues that actual scientific data on biomass shows that Read more…