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1879

SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION

Relaying of wild oyster seed from lower Willapa to upper Willapa (Blake et al. 2016).

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Act to disallow dredging of oysters above “lowest ebb tide”, restrict harvest between May 15 and September 1, and prohibit leaving culls on the beach. The act stipulated that small oysters must be returned to natural or cultivated beds.

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1877

LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Act of 1873 amended to increase to 20 acres statewide (Abbott, 1892).

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1875

Major anthropogenic physical disturbance

Columbia River: dredging of 5-meter deep channel to Portland completed, deepening to 7-meters commences

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1874

SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION

Mya arenaria, the eastern softshell clam, introduced to Willapa Bay from San Francisco Bay (Crawford, 1890).

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1873

Major anthropogenic physical disturbance

Columbia River: First dam on Columbia watershed: Willamette Falls Locks

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1873

LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Act of 1861 amended to increase land acquisition to 20 acres in Shoalwater Bay (Abbott, 1892).

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1872

Major anthropogenic physical disturbance

Columbia River: dredging a 2-meter deep channel from Portland to Lewiston commences

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1868

Major anthropogenic physical disturbance

Columbia River: dredging a 5-meter deep, 177 kilometer channel to Portland commences

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1866

LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Shoalwater Tribe reservation established by U.S. presidential executive order.

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1864

Legislative Actions

Washington Territory repealed “An Act for the Preservation of Clams, Oysters and Other Shellfish.”

Chehalis Tribe reservation established by U.S. presidential executive order.

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1861

“Sec 1. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington, that any person, being a citizen of this Territory, who has planted, or who hereafter may plant oysters in any bay or arm of the sea, where there are no natural beds of oysters, within or bordering upon this Territory, may acquire, by conforming to the requirements of this act, an exclusive right for such a purpose, to that portion of such bay or ...

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1861

LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

An Act to Encourage the Cultivation of Oysters. This act enabled the acquisition of up to 10 acres of tidelands. Act #711 passed Jan 16, 1861, Real Property Statutes of Washington Territory from 1843-1889 (Abbott, 1892).

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1859-1878

SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION

Relaying of wild oysters from lower Willapa to upper Willapa (Blake et al. 2016).

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