Dr. John Tayless, the founding president of North Island College, will speak at the next Comox Valley Nature meeting.
Tayless is a marine biologist who specialized in coral reef ecosystems. His talk will outline why the herring appear with such regularity in local waters around the second week in March.
Plankton, Herring and Sea Lions; The Annual Herring Migration Explained will take place at the Florence Filberg Seniors Centre at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21.