Tribe: Yurok Tribe
View Source Document: Yurok Tribe: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources
Year: 2014
Topic: Seyk-Soh (Marine Shellfish): Adaptation Strategies
Collaborate and partner with agencies to manage and protect habitat.
Collaborate with agencies and industry (e.g., agriculture) upriver to reduce nutrient flow into ocean.
Research and translate lessons from success stories of those working to reduce the occurrence of HABs by decreasing the amount...
Promote inter-departmental collaboration to utilize the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) to map out effects of sea level rise...
Conduct public outreach about sustainable harvesting practices.
Educate and manage recreation users to decrease tide pool souvenir hunting and trampling impacts (Hutto et al. 2015).
Increase more widespread and timely availability of public notices/information about detected toxins in pee’-eeh.
Need ordinances and enforcement against unsustainable harvesting practices, such as stripping entire pee’-eeh beds.
Restrict amount of waste and non-point source discharges flowing down river and into the ocean.
Proactively protect and secure higher elevation rocky shore habitat for seyk-soh to migrate to in response to sea level rise...
Work to re-establish kelp & sea grass beds to protect existing shorelines and reduce wave effects & sand erosion.
Investigate habitat needs and methodologies to restore native oyster populations.
