Razor clams are harvested within the park’s boundaries, leading to unique challenges balancing tribal and public harvest opportunities with a sensitive and declining population whose dynamics are not well understood.ĭuda, J.J., S.J. Second, we assess the condition of a population of razor clams found on OLYM’s Kalaloch Beach (Chapter 4.2.2). Here, we carefully examine 17 salmonid stocks on five park rivers to address the influence of a century of harvest and hatchery practices. These salmonids are also part of sport, commercial, ceremonial and subsistence fisheries outside the park. The park contains key freshwater habitat for Pacific salmonids where they are protected from harvest, have productive conditions for spawning and rearing, and provide critical ecological functions. First, we consider the condition of Pacific salmonids in the park (Chapter 4.2.1). In this section, we address two harvested resources of concern to the park. Within this geographical context, OLYM is tasked with conserving and managing aquatic resources that are harvested both inside and outside of the park’s boundaries, and that spend much of their life cycle in the ocean, where they are subject to a host of other natural and anthropogenic pressures. Olympic National Park exists as an island of protected land on the Olympic Peninsula, surrounded by multiple jurisdictions of managed lands and ultimately by the Pacific Ocean, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound.
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