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
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.
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.
