The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is re-using old cinderblocks to clean up popular shellfish beds and delineate harvest areas. With crews from the Department of Ecology’s Washington Conservation Corps/Veterans Conservation Corps (WCC/VCC) and NW Straits Commission, tribal shellfish staff spent a week in July situating the concrete blocks and removing debris from Quilcene and Sequim bays. […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is restoring salmon habitat in the 118-acre Washington Harbor by replacing a roadway and two culverts with a 600-foot-long bridge. The 600-foot-long road and the two 6-foot-wide culverts restrict tidal flow to a 37-acre estuary within the harbor adjacent to Sequim Bay, blocking fish access and harming salmon habitat. The tribe […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe planted more than 10,000 Olympia oyster seeds this summer to enhance an acre of tideland near the tribe’s headquarters on Sequim Bay. “The tidelands in front of the tribal center have small patches of mature and juvenile Olympia oysters so there is successful reproduction occurring, meaning there is probably good habitat,” […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is testing a variety of shellfish species for Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP). After discovering dangerous levels of the toxin in Sequim Bay last summer, the tribe wants to understand better how shellfish are affected by DSP. If shellfish contaminated with high levels of the toxin is ingested by humans, it can […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe recently learned that Sequim Bay is filled with more eelgrass than previously thought, and that’s good for the bay’s summer chum salmon, an ESA-listed species. “It’s a good sign to see that eelgrass was found nearly all the way around the bay,” said Lohna O’Rourke, the tribe’s environmental biologist. “This provides […]
