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Kay McGraw NOAA Restoration Center Silver Spring, MD

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 2010 Nov 20, 2010. Topics. Taxonomy– why bother? History and Decline Restoration Research.

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Kay McGraw NOAA Restoration Center Silver Spring, MD

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  1. 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 2010 Nov 20, 2010

  2. Topics • Taxonomy– why bother? • History and Decline • Restoration • Research

  3. Taxonomy 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) )

  4. Olympia oyster range Ostrea lurida Ostrea conchaphila

  5. History • Are dominant fossil in some sites • Found in coastal kitchen middens along the west coast

  6. 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”

  7. Puget Sound, WA

  8. THEN Olympia Oyster Co. ca 1899– Oly oyster beds

  9. Pulp mill opens in Shelton,WA

  10. Shelton Totten Inlet Eld Inlet Oyster Bay Budd Inlet Olympia

  11. Sulfite Wastes

  12. Reasons for Decline • Overharvest • Water quality/pollution • Loss of cultch • Predators and pests • Introduction of non-native oyster (Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas)

  13. NOAA RC Shellfish Restoration Projects Restoration

  14. Restoration • West Coast --Olys • 20+ projects • Over $2 M invested • 95 acres • 2 Workshops • Special volume of JSR on Olympia oysters

  15. Funding

  16. Volunteer Hours Number of Projects by State

  17. Examples of Restoration Projects • Northern San Francisco Bay– (Bud Abbott) • Newport Bay, CA – (Danielle Zacherl) • Puget Sound– (Betsy Peabody)

  18. Robert R. Abbott and Rena Obernolte—S.F. Bay

  19. Danielle Zacherl et al. Newport Bay, CA

  20. Betsy Peabody et al. – Puget Sound Restoration Fund

  21. Genetics 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)

  22. Jennifer Ruesink et al – North Bay, Case Inlet, Puget Sound, WA

  23. Alan Trimble’s research – Willapa Bay, WA

  24. Port Eliza, B.C. Status of populations • Trips to Esperanza Inlet, British Columbia– (Joth Davis) • Surveys in British Columbia– (Graham Gillespie)

  25. Port Eliza, B.C.

  26. 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

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