Understanding seal predation on salmon
Treaty tribes and partners are collaborating to answer a question essential to marine mammal management: How many salmon are being…
Tag: Noaa
What’s killing Hood Canal salmon? Tags offer clues
While the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe knows from recent studies that only half of out-migrating juvenile fish are getting past…
Dungeness Crab Studied Regionwide
Tribes throughout the Salish Sea and Washington coast are supporting studies to better understand Dungeness crab populations. Crab always have…
Underwater Cameras Show Glimpse of Marine Life at High Tide
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is using underwater cameras to see how shellfish-growing equipment on tidelands plays a role as habitat…
Narrowing Down Pre-spawning Mortality Factors for Coho Salmon
The annual pre-spawning salmon mortality study at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Hatchery takes a different twist each year. After…
Skokomish Tribe Monitors Harmful Algal Blooms in Hood Canal
The Skokomish Tribe is measuring the amount of toxins in harmful algal blooms in Hood Canal as part of an…
Finding Pollutants that Kill Salmon
Stormwater runoff in Puget Sound is killing fish. Following a four-year stormwater study, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
Coho Salmon Eggs Put to the Stormwater Test
Peering through a microscope at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Hatchery, biologist Tiffany Linbo uses two pairs of tweezers to…
Kitsap Sun: Arsenic testing of geoducks possible
The Kitsap Sun reported on the recent in-person meeting between U.S.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Chinese officials…