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Recovering Herring Stocks Through Indigenous Practices  

Recovering Herring Stocks Through Indigenous Practices  

Herring are a small species of fish, but they play an outsized role in the food web, culture, and the economy here in the Salish Sea and beyond. These small forage fish provide food for larger fish, birds and marine mammals all throughout the sea. If herring stocks suffer, as many of them currently do, the ecosystem-wide ripple effect is large.

A new SeaDoc-funded study will test herring recovery tools adapted from Indigenous practices to support or improve spawning and reproduction. The collaborative work will be led by Long Live the Kings, the Nisqually Indian Tribe, Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the University of Washington.

Salish Sea Wild: The Salish Sea’s Greatest Spectacle

Salish Sea Wild: The Salish Sea’s Greatest Spectacle

Team SeaDoc witnesses the Pacific Northwest’s most awesome wildlife spectacle as more than 100 million spawning herring lure the greatest annual gathering of Salish Sea predators to the Strait of Georgia. Join us for front-row seats above and below the water as thousands of marine mammals and seabirds, hundreds of hungry raptors, and packs of killer whales assemble for the feast.