Tribe, fishers team up to collect crab data
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s fishers and scientists are working together to better manage Dungeness crab for tribal harvest. Working…
Category: Shellfish
Science partnership benefits Dungeness crab
Treaty tribes and their partners in the Pacific Northwest Crab Research Group (PCRG) want more than data out of their…
Tribe examines crab conditions before fishing
Fisheries staff from Quinault Indian Nation’s Division of Natural Resources conducted a Dungeness crab test fishery in October, a crucial…
Partnership takes student science to the beach
When two Pioneer Middle School students picked their way across the tidelands of Little Skookum Inlet earlier this year, they…
Tribe studying various cockle-growing methods
The Suquamish Tribe is figuring out how to give tribal members more access to cockles by growing their own. “We’re…
Tribes collaborate to test invasive crab trapping method
Lummi Nation Aquatic Invasive Species Division staff deployed a series of innovative “crab slab” traps around the Lummi Sea Pond…
For Quinault Indian Nation, razor clam survey a crucial tool
Fisheries staff from the Quinault Indian Nation and others gathered on Kalaloch Beach early on a July morning to perform…
Port Gamble S’Klallam, nonprofit partner remove derelict crab pots
The heavy breaths of a diver come over the intercom on the F/V Cadence, telling the deck crew what he’s…
Giving Olympia oysters a hand in Discovery Bay
Discovery Bay’s expansive mudflats along the Olympic Peninsula have fostered the recovery of native Olympia oysters. The population has grown…