Tribes look at spawning cycles of sea cucumbers
Treaty tribes in western Washington are sampling sea cucumber gonads to better understand mating behaviors and figure out what’s preventing…
Category: Shellfish
Shrimp test fisheries guide harvest management
The Suquamish Tribe conducted its annual fishery to test spot shrimp egg production in March, concurrent with other tribes and…
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, partners using Dungeness crab DNA for population study
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of…
Quinault’s intertidal survey builds valuable data
Quinault Indian Nation fisheries staff surveyed beaches near the Big and Little Hogsback volcanic formations in July to help track…
Suquamish tribal elders hold clam harvest after hiatus
More than 40 Suquamish tribal elders participated in a clam dig in Chico Bay in July, for the first time…
Tribe reviving traditional shellfish resources, management practices
As part of a growing effort to revive ancestral food stewardship practices, the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community this spring invited…
Tribe, partners discover cancer in cockles
The Suquamish Tribe’s work to increase the regional cockle population for harvest has resulted in an unexpected discovery. Cockle cancer.…
Fight in “brushfire mode” against invasive crab
In the ongoing battle to curb the spread of invasive European green crab in the marine waters of Washington state,…
Tribe concerned about Purple Urchin Barrens and kelp forests
Hordes of slow-moving prickly purple urchin that creep along the seafloor can easily wipe out a kelp forest. The Makah…