HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarine Resources Division Report - PLN General - 2/11/1999 Washington
Department o/
FISH and
WILDLIFE Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
PO box 1100, LaConner, WA 98257
To: Linda Gilbreath, Allyn, WA
FROM: Dan Penttila, WDFW Marine Resources Division., LaConner WA J
SUBJECT:. Forage fish spawning habitat data, Hood Canal and Puget sound south of
Foulweather Bluff
In response to your recent request, enclosed Iis a collection of recent WDFW Marine
Resources Division reports detailing the known extents of herring, surf smelt and sand
lance spawning habitats in south and central Puget Sound and Hood Canal.
Our "1996 Forage Fish Stock Status Report" includes charts of the cumulative herring
spawning grounds for each Washington stock as documented by our surveys during the
1972-1996 period. The only spawning stock this report does not include is one just
discovered in early 1998 in the Elk river estuary of southern Grays Harbor.
My 1995.reports on surf smelt/sand lance spawning beaches in southern and central Puget
Sound were, by the present time, rather out of date, many new spawning sites having been
found since 1995. To expedite your receiving material that was as up-to-date as possible,
I revised and updated these chart sets, inserting additional charts of shorelines adjacent to
those charted in the original reports where necessary, to fully depict all presently known
spawning habitats of these species in these sectors of the Puget Sound basin. The texts of
the reports remained unmodified.
A new manuscript report was produced summarizing documented surf smelt/sand lance
spawning habitat sites within Hood Canal. The scale of these charts is 1:80,000, rather
than the 1:24,000 used in the south and central Puget Sound reports.
As I note elsewhere in this report collection, it should not be assumed that the spawning
habitat depictions in these reports are complete. Data were commonly collected on any
given sector of shoreline on 1-4 surveys over a 2-year period. It cannot be assumed that
all spawning sites were thus detected by our methodology. Some scattered sectors of
shoreline within the area of these reports have received no WDFW forage fish spawning
habitat survey effort as yet. Significant shoreline development projects should still include
2
timely forage fish habitat base line investigations on any upper intertidal sand-gravel
beaches within the project sites, particularly if designs call for intrusions of structures or
fill into the intertidal zone or the diminution or altering of the natural supply and long-
shore drift of beach sediments.
I hope this material is of use to you. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any
further questions.
01
BRITISH OOIUMalA 16
y �--- —' — -- •Iaii.+c STATE Of 'MASN�HuTOtI
\KMi ,o,u
VANC0L; VER `I " r�♦
15 L A N D
Apt
p w....�
/law
� C • Q O
• STR /T�..\„ / `[ter/
of�`. / •T
0E i
'•Y. N "Gcces
�' ttk.//J i•I
`f
T (i
`• - � :
i J '-Y D
55
1`
Figure 1 . Documented Pacific herring (Clupea) spawning grounds in the
Puget Sound basin, Washington, as of October 1995.
:lM1 •dam � y4.
Nr -
•iy.
Figure 4. Documented surf smelt (Hypomesus) spawning beaches in the Puget Sound
basin, as of February 1999.
WDFW 2/5/99
^..S• •�.F it.C h � / t' mil! ,� _
CA
• �� � iw
._r L
• .�L.
Figure 27. Documented Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes) spawning beaches in the
Puget Sound basin, as of February 1999. �P
WDFW 2/5/99
SCALE 1:24 000 j 10
0 1 MILE
t 1000 0 1000 :000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 FEET
/ 1 5 •0 1 KILOMETER
10
jj6
J
-zoo G
•�.�/•
•fir.—- ....•.•. • Y
Qs 1
'' 6 �A un Point �v''•J /;,`,':: V ✓ 1
a� Y /I ', s��'1 9 •/� STATE ' r—
r�� f 2 J,�•:/ /j�v�jll -;:;4�r/ a %, /:y{ �`1;. I
Tf1d1Rg �q_:�•! I /� I( j�i� '1 �f/;� /
V.
25
t .�4'� .,•'.1'.:!% � I 'I ..�' _%FB ;� •'1 :�/ir-..^—..//^'•jam. � �i/' •fir l •ti _ - --
I.H 'T S-:; 1T E N ; E
NI
//� p ;' ' .: '�•� ;%f• � ,'ti ; /.r � :; •�� %j jai ,i i Lt•c
•.... �I l ,-1� I/•- " 36 is
ti,i �arw :i ' / / �. I t S/ L A N \D1-7
�1 V �-•ia
o
IX I
?4� /f
Figure 2. Known surf smelt spawning beaches
in the central Pickering Passage
area.
rsNELroN (. M(. �;M.
WDFW Baitfish Unit 3/28/95
SCALE 1:24 000
Ph0 1 j 0 1 MILE .; 36
1000 0 10 00 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 FEET
1 .5 0 1 xgOMETER
% oo ,
' y / It
.12
o ,
loo
183 r \ 1; S A
Ut1 Point .?a:.... ,::^:: ''/r' • '3 �..r--, i, •;!, G • .;
,Y• BM 4 � �a�7 •:/1
�O 1' q /•��. v., PARR r%
.,/ '•M1//�/�' ` I`1'''11 V / .�. , / r ,•!a fL'�,1 �/ ,I , '�,/�'�—.-//. 1•��/'\�' r ��.\`J•�28,
25•i ' I
i�/!'�� 111 C; �c(1 � � .. sr 1 ..' .u•:'. ,—`..//: H•Irtytene t•�� I
:;` ;;�p//////•,�_;: , H • R /`T� S T E` N ; E .
'�
:/1?a •'�.__��/ / •�k�� 1I.�T•'I•�1 1 C 1 I � /, /• ..g'<•' / ; J �'� �i
1 Jam./ �.O • � ,^.r I' '��t � � `��.�/ � � /' !' I I � ,`• / :r `/
33 •�' ! I ;ir t�' J;' � � f �;i !; S•/ '�! i ,3ILI
�
1 =. �•'~ I .�.`'•;;~ .�- ; 1 S L' A N D
h� '/• �/ is 1 �' :•' o � � I
y•/'g
iVW
7.
/'�^/• / ` =� r' / Figure 28. Known sand lance spawning beaches in
GFallarti.Pt the central Pickering Passage area.
- WDFW Baitfish Unit 3/28/95