One of the goals of the Northwest Straits Commission is to facilitate citizen science by training local citizens on how to collect scientific data and monitor the status of our marine resources and habitats. A second goal of the Commission is to provide education and outreach activities for local communities. The purpose of the Community Beach Seining project is to address both of these goals by using community volunteers to collect fish monitoring data and interact with interested community citizens by including them in the sampling efforts and data collection.
Beach seining at Ship Harbor is continuing, in part, the fish sampling initiated at this location in 2010 as part of Skagit County Marine Resources Committee’s (Skagit MRC) Cannery Pond Evaluation Project, which was primarily conducted by a WWU graduate student (Dinnel and Seyl 2011). Continuation of fish sampling in 2011, 2012, 2013 and beyond will provide a longer term fish database for this North Fidalgo Island (west Guemes Channel) location, which is not being monitored for fish by any other organization. All data collected will be forwarded to Skagit River Systems Cooperative, which maintains an extensive database for seine sampling in Skagit County waters, especially in relation to juvenile salmonid species.
This report summarizes the Community Beach Seine sampling conducted at Ship Harbor on 19 June and 15 August, 2013. Data from these two sampling periods are presented in this report, which also includes comparisons to three previous sampling efforts at Ship Harbor (August 2011, June 2012 and August 2012). Additional information and data from these three previous sampling efforts may be found in two earlier reports (Dinnel and Apple 2012a, 2012b).
Methods
The location of the beach seining site is Ship Harbor, which is located on the northwest side of Fidalgo Island just east of the Washington State San Juan Island Ferry Terminal (Fig. 1). The tidelands are owned by the Port of Anacortes and the uplands are owned by the City of Anacortes, both which have given their permission for site access
Dinnel, P. and Apple, J., 2013. Community Beach Seining at Ship Harbor, Fidalgo Island, Washington, June and August 2013. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. pp. 32.
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