Dungeness Crab Studied Regionwide
Tribes throughout the Salish Sea and Washington coast are supporting studies to better understand Dungeness crab populations. Crab always have…
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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…
Filtered Stormwater Added to Annual Coho Salmon Experiment
Rain gardens filter toxic chemical contaminants from stormwater before it flows into Puget Sound streams, but no one knows how…
Grovers Creek Coho Used for Stormwater Runoff Study
Using fish from the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek hatchery, federal agencies and their partners are determining just how lethal polluted…