Washington State Exotics Expedition 2000: a Rapid Survey of Exotic Species in the Shallow Waters of Elliott Bay, Totten and Eld Inlets, and Willapa Bay
Washington State Exotics Expedition 2000: A Rapid Survey of Exotic Species in the Shallow Waters of Elliott Bay, Totten and Eld Inlets, and Willapa Bay Prepared by: Andrew N. Cohen, Helen D. Berry, Claudia E. Mills, David Milne, Kevin Britton-Simmons, Marjorie J. Wonham, David L. Secord, Jessica A. Barkas, Brian Bingham, Betty E. Bookheim, James E. Byers, John W. Chapman, Jeff R. Cordell, Brett Dumbauld, Allan Fukuyama, Leslie H. Harris, Alan J. Kohn, Kevin Li, Thomas F. Mumford Jr., Vasily Radashevsky, Amy T. Sewell, Kathy Welch For: The Nearshore Habitat Program Washington State Department of Natural Resources 1111 Washington Street SE, PO Box 47027, Olympia, WA 98504-7027 (360) 902-1100 October 2001 Executive Summary In recent decades, the world has witnessed an array of harmful invasions by exotic marine and freshwater organisms. In 1998, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources organized a rapid survey of exotic organisms in Puget Sound in order to provide the public and policymakers with information on the status of exotic species in Washington waters (Cohen et al. 1998). The 1998 Puget Sound Expedition collected and identified 39 non-indigenous species in six days of sampling. Ten of these were new records for Puget Sound. We report here on a second survey of exotic organisms in Washington State waters, conducted May 17-23, 2000. The 2000 Expedition was the sixth in a series of Rapid Assessment surveys for exotic marine organisms on the Pacific Coast. As in past surveys, our primary objective was to assess the status of exotic invasions within defined regions and habitat types through non- quantitative census methods.
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