| Citation | Veggerby KB, Scheuerell MD, Sanderson BL and Kiffney PM (2024) Stable isotopes reveal intertidal fish and crabs use bivalve farms as
foraging habitat in Puget Sound, Washington. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1282225. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1282225 (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1282225) |
| Title | Stable isotopes reveal intertidal fish and crabs use shellfish farms as foraging habitat in Puget Sound, Washington |
| Publication Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Keywords | shellfish, habitat, feeding, oysters, intertidal, aquaculture, stable isotopes, "shellfish aquaculture" |
| Abstract | Eelgrass meadows are highly productive and ecologically foundational nearshore habitats that provide valuable ecosystem services including sediment deposition and stabilization, and the provision of nursery, refuge, and foraging habitat throughout much of the Puget Sound. Eelgrass meadows overlap with bivalve farming activities across many intertidal areas of Washington State. Bivalves such as oysters and clams have been farmed in the Puget Sound region of the Salish Sea for thousands of years. Indigenous peoples have traditionally used systems called clam gardens to modify stretches of shoreline habitat to create ideal conditions for edible bivalves. More recently, oysters, clams, and other bivalves have been grown by both First Nation and non-First Nation farmers using a variety of gear types in intertidal zones across Puget Sound and the coast of Washington. These gear types create complex vertical structure and attachment points for aquatic epiphytes and invertebrates which increas |
| Official Citation | Veggerby KB, Scheuerell MD, Sanderson BL and Kiffney PM (2024) Stable isotopes reveal intertidal fish and crabs use bivalve farms as
foraging habitat in Puget Sound, Washington. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1282225. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1282225 |
| Links | (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1282225) |