This Saturday, Friends of the Cedar River Watershed are inviting Ballard residents to learn about fish and then to drink like one at the BalMar.

The BalMar will be hosting Drink Like a Fish Night July 25 to support Friends of the Cedar River Watershed. A $10 donation gets patrons a free pint and happy hour prices from 5 p.m. to close.

There will also be a raffle and cocktail mixing classes.

The Cedar River Watershed is the watershed that encompasses Ballard and the rest of Seattle. The water from the watershed powers the Ballard Locks and supplies most of Seattle's drinking water.

"Do you like having clean water to drink?" asked a Friends of the Cedar River Watershed representative. "That's why the watershed is important."

Rebecca Sayre, outreach coordinator for the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed, said the organization wanted to draw attention to the importance of the watershed with a fun, friendly and community-oriented event.

She said the people at the BalMar are civically minded, and Drink Like a Fish Night is one of hopefully several collaborations with the Ballard bar.

"It was a natural fit," she said.

The money raised from the event will go toward funding various educational and restorative projects put on by the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed, a nonprofit based in Ballard, Sayre said.

She said more than 1,000 volunteers planted 3,000 plant species in the watershed in the last year.

"We get our hands dirty," Sayre said. "And, we'd love to encourage people in Ballard to come out and join us."

Prior to Drink Like a Fish Night, residents are invited to join naturalists from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in observing salmon as they journey from the ocean to Lake Washington through the Ballard Locks.

For more information on Friends of the Cedar River Watershed, contact rebecca@cedarriver.org.