Dungeness Crab Studied Regionwide
Tribes throughout the Salish Sea and Washington coast are supporting studies to better understand...
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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...
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Narrowing Down Pre-spawning Mortality Factors for Coho Salmon
The annual pre-spawning salmon mortality study at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek...
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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...
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Finding Pollutants that Kill Salmon
Stormwater runoff in Puget Sound is killing fish. Following a four-year stormwater study,...
Read MoreCoho 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 gently peel the protective layer off an 18-day-old fertilized coho salmon egg. The National...
Read MoreKitsap 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 about China’s ban of geoduck imported from the United States’...
Read MoreFiltered 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 well they protect the salmon that spawn in those streams. That was this year’s question during...
Read MoreGrovers 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 urban highway runoff is to salmon. Staff from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)...
Read MoreGrovers Creek coho used for testing pre-spawning mortality causes
Biologist David Baldwin pours a mixture of copper, zinc, lead and other pollutants into a large tank of water at the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek Hatchery, then slips four adult coho salmon into the dirty brown liquid. The...
Read MoreSkokomish Tribe progressing on steelhead project in Hood Canal
The Skokomish Tribe is wrapping up the first five years of an intensive 16-year study to enhance steelhead populations in Hood Canal rivers. Puget Sound steelhead are listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species...
Read MoreMakah Tribe recevies grant for stranded marine mammal research
The Peninsula Daily News writes about a grant the Makah Tribe has received to aid its marine mammal stranding research on the reservation.
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