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WHAT’S IN A NAME? HISTORY AND RECENT ADVANCES IN
RESEARCH AND RESTORATION OF THE OLYMPIA OYSTER, Ostrea
lurida Carpenter 1864
WHAT’S IN A NAME? HISTORY AND RECENT ADVANCES IN
RESEARCH AND RESTORATION OF THE OLYMPIA OYSTER, Ostrea
lurida Carpenter 1864
Kay McGraw NOAA Restoration Center
Silver Spring, MD
ICSR 2010Nov 20, 2010
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Topics
• Taxonomy– why bother?
• History and Decline
• Restoration
• Research
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What’s in a Name?
Common Name: Olympia Oyster–
Scientific Name: ??Ostrea conchaphila Carpenter 1857
Ostrea lurida Carpenter 1864(Polson et al., 2009. JSR 28 (1) )
Taxonomy
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44Ostrea conchaphila
Olympia oyster range
Ostrea lurida
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• Are dominant fossil in some sites• Found in coastal kitchen middens along the
west coast
History
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Some Characteristics
• Only oyster native to the U.S. west coast
• Small and slow growing
• “Delicate”
• No promyal chamber (less tolerant of turbidity??)
• Protandrous hermaphrodite
• Broods larvae up to 12 days
• Don’t really form large “reefs”
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Puget Sound, WA
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THEN
Olympia Oyster Co. ca 1899– Oly oyster beds
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Olympia Oyster Landings1888 - 2008
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Pulp mill opens in Shelton,WA
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Oyster Bay
Totten Inlet
Eld Inlet
Budd Inlet
Olympia
Shelton
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Sulfite Wastes
Olympia Oyster Production and Sulfite Waste (1920 - 1970)
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Olympia oyster productionSulfite WasteLinear (Sulfite Waste)
Pulp Mill Closed 1957
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• Overharvest
• Water quality/pollution
• Loss of cultch
• Predators and pests
• Introduction of non-native oyster (Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas)
Reasons for Decline
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Restoration
NOAA RC Shellfish Restoration Projects
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Restoration
West Coast --Olys• 20+ projects
• Over $2 M invested
• 95 acres • 2 Workshops
• Special volume of JSR on Olympia oysters
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Funding
$0
$500,000
$1,000,000
$1,500,000
$2,000,000
CA OR WA All StatesStates
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NOAA contrib
partner contrib
state contrib
other non federal contrib
total contributions
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Number of Projects by State
Volunteer Hours
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100,000
CA OR WA
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Lo
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)# Volunteer Hrs# VolsAvg # Hrs per Volunteer31,505
8, 480
3.7
644
3519
3,490
581
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Examples of Restoration Projects
• Northern San Francisco Bay– (Bud Abbott)
• Newport Bay, CA – (Danielle Zacherl)
• Puget Sound– (Betsy Peabody)
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Robert R. Abbott and Rena Obernolte—S.F. Bay
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Danielle Zacherl et al. Newport Bay, CA
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Betsy Peabody et al. – Puget Sound Restoration Fund
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RESEARCH
• Is it Ostrea conchaphila or lurida? (Maria Polson)
• How much genetic variation is there among/within Ostrea lurida populations along the west coast? (Mark Camara)
Genetics
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Jennifer Ruesink et al – North Bay, Case Inlet, Puget Sound, WA
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Alan Trimble’s research – Willapa Bay, WA
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Status of populations
• Trips to Esperanza Inlet, British Columbia– (Joth Davis)
• Surveys in British Columbia– (Graham Gillespie)
Port Eliza, B.C.
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Port Eliza, B.C.
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect. …..Chief Seattle, [Seatlh], Suquamish - 1786-1866
“Vision of a Restored Habitat” by Cory and Catska Ench, Port Townsend, WA