Tribe: Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
View Source Document: Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Year: 2023
Eelgrass beds benefit the surrounding ecosystem and the Tribe by providing valuable breeding and nursery grounds for lobsters, crabs, and scallops, stabilizing sediments and particles, filtering toxic pollutants, and attenuating wave energy.
Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
In September 2017, an area that was identified as previously supporting eelgrass (but at the time was devoid of it)...
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head
Undertake a review of practices that may directly damage eelgrass beds (e.g. moorings, scallop dredges, propeller damage, excess nutrients from...