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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San Juan MRC - Southern Resident Killer Whale Disturbance
One of the key threats to the endangered Southern Resident killer whale (SRKW) is vessel disturbance. Following the outcomes of the MRC-hosted community workshops of 2017 and 2018 and areas of concern identified by the Governor’s Southern Resident Orca Task Force, San Juan MRC continued their efforts to address boater behavior and awareness with respect to the SRKW. This report provides a summary of the outreach efforts, project participation and core accomplishments of the MRC over the course of the 2019-2020 grant year. Additionally, the report also provides an outline of expected efforts for the 2020-2021 grant year.
By: San Juan MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: San Juan County
Length: 12
Island MRC Outreach 2019-2020
Outreach is an important aspect of the work of the Island County MRC, including internal communications to Island County leadership as well as external outreach to the local community. Outreach is an integral component of each MRC project – whether a highly visible restoration project or behind-the-scenes data analysis. By helping the community understand what the MRC does and why, the MRC hopes to increase public interest in learning about and caring for the local marine environment. Due to the emergence of COVID-19 and subsequent precautionary measures, the MRC had to make adaptations to outreach efforts, such as making more materials and resources available online. These adaptations are likely to continue into the future, and offer the opportunity for creative outreach techniques, and the potential to increase accessibility of resources.
By: Island MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Island County
Length: 14
Skagit MRC 2020 Fidalgo Bay Day Activity Guide
The Skagit Marine Resources Committee hosted their 2020 Fidalgo Bay Day through a scavenger hunt. This is the activity guide prepared for the scavenger hunt by 14 organizations.
By: Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: Skagit County
Length: 25
San Juan MRC Plastic Free Salish Sea 2020
Plastic Free Salish Sea is a partnership created and led by the San Juan County MRC. The initiative seeks to change citizen behavior and the culture of plastic use in San Juan County and the surrounding Salish Sea region. Through 2019 and 2020 the MRC built off the efforts they had begun in 2018 with Plastic Free Salish Sea (PFSS). With the development of the PFSS brand design the MRC set out to expand the reach of its efforts throughout the county and around the Salish Sea. This report provides a summary of the website development, toolkit development and publication, outreach efforts related to PFSS in response to COVID-19 recommendations, beach clean participation, and core accomplishments of the MRC over the course of the 2019-2020 grant year.
By: San Juan MRC
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Benchmark: Education and Outreach
Location: San Juan County
Length: 33
Whatcom MRC Pilot Olympia Oyster Restoration 2019-20
This report summarizes the activities completed between October, 2019 and September 2020 by the Whatcom Marine Resources Committee for the pilot Olympia oyster restoration project in North Chuckanut Bay. This report includes the approved Quality Assurance Project Plan.
By: Whatcom MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Whatcom County
Length: 32
Whatcom MRC 2020 Bull Kelp Monitoring Report
This report summarizes the bull kelp monitoring completed between October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020 by the Whatcom Marine Resources Committee.
By: Whatcom MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Whatcom County
Length: 8
Island MRC Hoypus Point and Possession Point Restoration Feasibility
Blue Coast Engineering, LLC assisted Northwest Straits Foundation and Island County Marine Resources Committee with a feasibility study to evaluate potential for armor and debris removal to restore nearshore processes at two sites on Whidbey Island. The two proposed project locations are both owned and maintained by Washington State Parks. One, Hoypus Point, is on the north end of Whidbey Island, east of Deception Pass. The other, Possession Point, is on the south end of Whidbey Island, near the Clinton Ferry Terminal. The goal of the feasibility study was to select one of the two site locations to move forward into conceptual design. Site selection was based on the results of the feasibility evaluation, which included evaluation of ecological benefit, site constraints and construction cost for the proposed restoration work at each site. A conceptual design, including an engineer’s opinion of construction cost, was developed for the preferred site. This report summarizes the feasibility study, documents selection process for the preferred site location, and outlines the conceptual design for the preferred site.
By: Island MRC, Blue Coast Engineering
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Benchmark: Marine Habitat
Location: Island County
Length: 70
Whatcom MRC 2019 Annual Report
Annual report for the Whatcom Marine Resources Committee for 2019.
By: Whatcom MRC
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Benchmark: All
Location: Whatcom County
Length: 17
Clallam MRC Olympia Oyster Quality Assurance Project Plan 2020
The Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida), Washington's only native oyster, forms three-dimensional biogenic habitat extensively used by fish, invertebrates and other marine organisms. This Quality Assurance Project Plan is a guide to collect a baseline of biological data on the restoration site at Sequim Bay, a partnership between the Clallam County Marine Resources Committee, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, and Puget Sound Restoration Fund.
By: Clallam MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Clallam County
Length: 27
Jefferson MRC Olympia Oyster Quality Assurance Project Plan 2020
The Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida) is the only native oyster of the North American Pacific Coast and once thrived in coves, inlets, and other projected tidelands in the Puget Sound. This publication is the quality assurance project plan for Olympia oyster restoration in Discovery Bay, Jefferson County, WA.
By: Jefferson MRC, Monica Montgomery
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Jefferson County
Length: 29
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
Pinto Abalone Quality Assurance Project Plan 2020
The pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana), a charismatic and ecologically important marine gastropod, is in severe decline in Washington State waters. This publication is the quality assurance project plan for pinto abalone restoration in Skagit County, WA.
By: Bouma, Josh; Dinnel, Paul, Skagit MRC
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Benchmark: Marine Species
Location: Skagit County
Length: 22
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
Length: 0
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 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
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
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
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
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