Oyster beds create a structured habitat for tiny ... of Olympia oyster settlements in Dyes Inlet and throughout the Puget Sound, Allen said. They intend to check in on recruitment about a year ...

The recent downgrade of 4,000 acres of shellfish beds ... bayside oyster shucking facility, tucked in a residential neighborhood on a picturesque sliver of land that juts into Puget Sound like ...

The Puget Sound Restoration Fund released 1,500 cubic ... but not in dense enough populations to create the necessary oyster bed habitat. “All of those important ecological benefits come along ...

Inquiries about Puget Sound oyster supplies have started to ... naturally without the aid of hatcheries, and if those oyster beds become damaged it could take a while before they “naturally ...

Access to the beach is an easy, short walk, and the area is abundant with steamer clams and has an enhanced oyster bed ... One popular beach in Puget Sound region is Birch Bay State Park, which ...

A self-proclaimed genetics nerd, Thomas is charged with reviving the Olympia oyster for the Swinomish ... protection measures. In North Puget Sound alone, this would have included over 2,000 acres ...

By the 1950s, most of the rich Olympia oyster beds of Puget Sound’s inlets were also dead. And so the Olys neared extinction. A hardy Japanese oyster that could withstand the pollution ...

John Hansen says there’s an easy explanation for why he can no longer sell his shellfish: There’s just too much poop in the waters of Puget Sound.

Pesticide use for oyster beds is once again threatening ... the Center of Biological Diversity and the Coalition to Protect Puget Sound Habitat, all of which are filing appeals to keep the ...

SHUCK’ EM: One of the most unique parties in the region is the annual “Walrus & Carpenter Picnic” on Taylor Shellfish Farms’ Totten Inlet oyster bed in South Puget Sound, benefiting the ...

and three in Tacoma Narrows to the east—within south Puget Sound. To accomplish this, they placed quadrats randomly at each sampling site (not in existing oyster beds) in the mid- and upper ...

The recent downgrade of 4,000 acres of shellfish beds ... bayside oyster shucking facility, tucked in a residential neighborhood on a picturesque sliver of land that juts into Puget Sound like ...