Resource Library
Our library contains a collection of materials from projects and meetings brought to you by the Northwest Straits Commission and the seven Marine Resources Committees. Please contact Commission staff if you are unable to find what you are looking for online.
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Whatcom Chuckanut Quality Assurance Project Plan 2020
This Quality Assurance Project Plan provides a comprehensive and coordinated plan for water quality monitoring in the Chuckanut Watershed. It outlines a fecal monitoring program specific to North Chuckanut Bay using methods established through Whatcom County’s routine fecal coliform monitoring program for watersheds that discharge to marine waters and shellfish growing areas.
By: Whatcom MRC, Rose, A., Douglas, E., Steffensen, W.
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Benchmark: Marine Water Quality
Location: Whatcom County
Length: 42
Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan
This Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan (Kelp Plan) provides a framework for coordinated research and management actions to protect these fundamental and iconic kelp species from a suite of global and local stressors. Successfully achieving kelp conservation and recovery will require a collaborative effort between our community of Tribes, managing entities, and stakeholders in Puget Sound. Additional collaboration with Canadian federal, provincial, and First Nation entities will support conservation and recovery efforts in the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin region.
By: Northwest Straits
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Benchmark: All
Location: Northwest Straits
Length: 63
Northwest Straits Initiative 2019 Annual Report
Annual report for the Northwest Straits Initiative 2019. Formatted and best viewed online at https://bit.ly/2019NWS"target="_blank"title="2019 Annual Report">https://bit.ly/2019NWS.
"By: Northwest Straits
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Location: Northwest Straits
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Snohomish MRC 2019 Annual Report
Annual report for the Snohomish Marine Resources Committee for 2019.
By: Snohomish MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Snohomish County
Length: 16
Appendix C- Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan
Appendix C: Prioritized Data Gaps and Workshop Notes. This is an appendix of the Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan. This document includes a list of prioritized knowledge gaps, which were prioritized based on their value in guiding decisions for kelp conservation and recovery strategies.
Northwest Straits Commission staff hosted four workshops between March 2018 and June 2019. This appendix includes agendas, attendee lists and notes from each workshop.
By: Max Calloway, Dana Oster, Helen Berry, Tom Mumford, Nicole Naar, Betsy Peabody, Lucas Hart, Dan Tonnes, Steve Copps, James Selleck, Brian Allen, Jodie Toft
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Puget Sound
Length: 55
Appendix A- Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan
Appendix A of the 2020 Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan. This is a knowledge review documents kelp biology and ecology, describes kelp distribution and trends, explains kelp stressors, makes the case for kelp as foundational species, and describes ecosystem engineering.
By: Max Calloway, Dana Oster, Helen Berry, Tom Mumford, Nicole Naar, Betsy Peabody, Lucas Hart, Dan Tonnes, Steve Copps, James Selleck, Brian Allen, Jodie Toft
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Benchmark: All
Location: Puget Sound
Length: 33
Appendix B- Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan
Appendix B: The Cultural Importance of Kelp for Pacific Northwest Tribes. This is Appendix B of the Puget Sound Kelp Conservation and Recovery Plan.
By: Nicole Naar, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Puget Sound
Length: 12
Skagit MRC 2019 Annual Report
Annual report for the Skagit Marine Resources Committee for the year 2019.
By: Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Skagit County
Length: 19
Jefferson MRC 2019 Annual Report
Annual report for the Jefferson Marine Resources Committee for the year 2019.
By: Jefferson MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 11
MRC Forage Fish Quality Assurance Project Plan 2020
Quality assurance project plan: Marine Resources Committee Intertidal Forage Fish Spawning Survey. Forage fish are a vital part of the Puget Sound ecosystem, and the monitoring of their status is an important component to the recovery of Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. This publication is a quality assurance project plan for monitoring forage fish spawning sites by Marine Resources Committees of the Northwest Straits region.
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Northwest Straits
Length: 28
By: Clallam Marine Resources Committee
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Benchmark: All
Location: Clallam County
Length: 17
2020 Drayton Harbor Cooperative Management Plan for European Green Crab
The purpose of the 2020 Drayton Harbor Cooperative Management Plan for European Green Crab is to establish and implement a coordinated and collaborative response to a recent discovery of European green crab (EGC) within the Drayton Harbor Action Area. The management plan encompasses tasks that occur from April 2020 to June 2021 with the completion of tasks dependent upon guidelines related to COVID-19 (Office of the Governor, 2020).
By: Northwest Straits, WA Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington Sea Grant
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Northwest Straits
Length: 31
Whatcom MRC 2019 Boulevard Park Intertidal Monitoring
The Whatcom County Marine Resource Committee performed intertidal surveys at four sites throughout Boulevard Park during the summers of 2013-2015 and again in 2019 to assess the 2013 shoreline enhancement action on the beach slope, substrate, and diversity of intertidal organisms, as well as to attain a baseline of these factors for the Boulevard Park Beach.
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Location: Whatcom County
Length: 41
San Juan MRC 2018-19 Annual Report
Annual report for the San Juan Marine Resources Committee for 2018-19.
By: San Juan MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: San Juan County
Length: 11
Rain Garden Summary Report for 2019
This report is a summary of the two 2019 Jefferson MRC rain garden projects with background information, photos, media coverage and drawings.
By: Cheryl Lowe
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Benchmark: Marine Water Quality
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 18
Skagit MRC 2019 Fidalgo Bay Day
Fidalgo Bay Day is the Skagit County Marine Resources Committee’s (Skagit MRC) signature public outreach event that has taken place annually for the last 16 years. This event has primarily been hosted at the Samish Indian Nation’s Fidalgo Bay Resort clubhouse. The main focus of the event is to spread awareness of the marine environment and fostering environmental stewardship. People visiting the event learn a great many things about the ecosystem functions of the plants and animals that live in Fidalgo Bay and the greater Salish Sea. This report is from the 2019 Fidalgo Bay Day.
By: Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Skagit County
Length: 33
Whatcom MRC 2019 Olympia Oyster Report
This report summarizes the activities completed between October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2019 by the Whatcom Marine Resources Committee for the pilot Olympia oyster restoration project in North Chuckanut Bay.
By: Whatcom MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Whatcom County
Length: 8
Island MRC 2019 Annual Report
The Island County MRC is one of seven Marine Resources Committees supported by the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative, with the goal to restore and protect our marine waters. This annual report report represents work conducted from October 2018 through September 2019.
By: Island MRC
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Location: Island County
Length: 13
Jefferson MRC 2019 Olympia Oyster Report
Jefferson MRC Olympia Oyster Summary Report for Discovery Bay and Quilcene Bay restoration sites. Jefferson MRC is collaborating with WDFW and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (Co-Managers) to enhance and expand the main population by increasing appropriate, available substrate in nearby areas to facilitate natural recruitment in Discovery Bay. The MRC's goals were to continue data collection at Discovery Bay and determine if future restoration in Quilcene Bay is a possibility.
By: Jefferson MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 19
Clallam 2019 Olympia Oyster Restoration
Clallam County Marine Resources Committee (Clallam MRC), Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) and Puget Sound Restoration Fund are working together to restore Olympia oysters in Clallam County with a focus on Sequim Bay. The effort is part of a larger goal underway to restore 100 acres of Olympia oyster habitat in the Puget Sound area by 2020.
By: Clallam MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Clallam County
Length: 16
Snohomish MRC MyCoast Toolkit
The MyCoast app marketing campaign ran from May through September 2019, focusing on engaging priority audiences using digital tactics, traditional media ad buys, and physical collateral, in addition to leveraging project partner networks through a partner toolkit. The campaign targeted residents and visitors of Snohomish County, but was designed to be transferable and scalable to other coastal counties, MRCs, and conservation partners across Washington state. Digital ads were the primary focus of the strategy, with traditional media ads and physical collateral to reach beach goers and water users who may not be as digitally engaged. The marketing approach, goals and tactics are outlined in full in the Marketing Plan. This final report includes a summary of the implementation of the marketing plan, including goals and outcomes, final results from the digital tactics and traditional media, physical collateral, marketing campaign costs, adjustments made based on interim user metrics and lessons learned, and the webinar.
By: Snohomish MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Snohomish County
Length: 9
Skagit MRC Kids on the Beach 2019
Kids on the Beach is a program that mobilizes students in central Skagit County to conduct authentic marine conservation research. Kids on the Beach (KOTB) launched in 2018 with Conway School. In its second year, KOTB expanded from one to two schools, including two Conway 8th grade classes and adding two La Conner Middle School 8th grade classes. The program provided a greater focus on Native Environmental Science, adding a new beach enhancement site on Swinomish Tribal lands, a new school with a 50% Swinomish Tribal Community student population, and the support of the Swinomish Department of Environmental Protection staff and the experience of indigenous ways of knowing being respected as equal to western science in resource management.
By: Mira Lutz Castle, Skagit MRC
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Location: Skagit County
Length: 20
Jefferson MRC 2018 Annual Report
This report summarizes the work of Jefferson Marine Resource Committee for 2018.
By: Cheryl Lowe
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Benchmark: All
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 14
Clallam MRC 2018 Annual Report
This report summarizes the work of the Clallam County Marine Resource Committee for 2018.
By: Clallam MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Clallam County
Length: 15
2018 Northwest Straits Annual Report
Annual report of the Northwest Straits Initiative for 2018.
By: Northwest Straits
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Benchmark: All
Location: Northwest Straits
Length: 38