Sequim Bay

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe cleans tidelands for shellfish

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.

In Quilcene Bay, hundreds of cinderblocks were left behind on the tidelands from an old oyster farm operation. Instead of hauling them out, the tribe reorganized them to create obvious harvest area boundaries. (more…)

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More eelgrass found in Sequim Bay than expected

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 a baseline of what’s there now and we can track the growth or decline over time.” (more…)

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