Henderson, R. and Beamer, E., 2017. Dugualla DOT Lagoon fish monitoring in 2017. Skagit River System Cooperative, La Conner, WA. pp. 6.

Dugualla DOT Lagoon, located in the southeast corner of Dugualla Bay in Skagit Bay, was created in the autumn of 2016 (Figure 1). This tidal lagoon was created by the Washington Department of Transportation (DOT) as mitigation for wetland impacts associated with replacement of the Davis Slough Bridge on state highway 532 near the town of Stanwood (Island County Hearing Examiner 2013). The project restored tidal exchange on portions of a 33-acre diked historic pocket estuary owned by the Whidbey Camano Land Trust.
Fish monitoring was initiated in late winter 2017 by a team of volunteers from Island County’s Marine Resources Committee. The monitoring effort was discontinued after the site was found to be too difficult to sample with the equipment and resources available. SRSC agreed to periodic fish sampling in 2017 in order to not miss the opportunity to document which fish used the site in the first year following restoration of tidal exchange. This technical memo presents a summary of beach seine effort and fish catch from SRSC’s effort.