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
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.
Develop community clam gardens at a Yurok significant site to increase clam productivity and enhance ecosystem health that supports all...
Consider developing access to alternative sites for seyk-soh harvesting based on sea level rise scenarios.
Use tribal knowledge to teach about when and how to harvest seyk-soh.
Utilize Local Environment Observation (LEO) Yurok Hub to track, monitor, and archive changes in the environment.
