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Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch

According to a new study, Indigenous communities in North America and Australia sustainably managed oyster fisheries for more than 5,000 years before Europeans and commercial fisheries arrived.

The knowledge of these…

2022-06-02
Swinomish Tribe wants to resurrect U.S. clam gardening

The practice of clam gardening is thousands of years old, but Indigenous communities likely haven’t built a clam garden in the Pacific Northwest in modern times , said marine ecologist Dr. Marco Hatch, a member of the…

2021-12-17
The tiny but mighty Olympia oyster regains a foothold in Washington waters

State biologists selected 19 priority restoration areas around Washington — from Drayton Harbor near the Canadian border, to Budd Inlet near Olympia — by searching through old reports and records from archaeological digs to find out where the oysters used to be most abundant.

“The best…

2019-09-23
Dive into the Salish Sea this summer with a new online GUR, SALI 201 2019-05-31
Digging for indigenous science in 3,000-year-old clam beds

WWU's Marco Hatch, a Coastal Salish scholar, talks about the importance of bringing indigenous knowledge to Western research — and what science loses when we don't.

2019-03-25
WWU Students Celida Moran and Samara Almonte Awarded Prestigious Doris Duke Fellowships 2019-01-25
‘We can all be scientists’: Here’s how

At its heart, so much about the scientific discoveries that have moved human civilization forward comes down to one thing: data.

For hundreds of years, this paradigm has ruled the scientific process – scientist collects data, scientist analyzes data, scientist comes to conclusion based…

2018-04-04
WWU Students Attend National SACNAS Conference in Salt Lake City 2017-12-04
Huxley’s Marco Hatch Conducting Summer Field Work in the San Juans 2017-07-11
Coastal Tribes Garden Clams to Preserve Culture, Improve Health

recent study comparing a clam garden to an unmanaged shoreline showed a doubling of production in littleneck clams and quadrupling…

2017-07-07
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