Grayland Fish Use Assessment

The Grays Harbor Estuary Conservation Plan noted the importance of the small tidally influenced creeks for juvenile salmon, specifically unmarked Wild Origin Fish. Unmarked Chinook were present in large numbers in Charley Creek and in all areas of the estuaries as they moved to South Bay. Coho, fall Chinook, and winter steelhead  are all documented adjacent to the property. The dipnet and minnow trap sampling at sites A, B, C, D and the State Park Access identified spined sticklebacks, gunnels, coast range sculpin, staghorn sculpin, sharpnose sculpin, shrimp and crabs. The abundance of these different species was far higher downstream of the culvert sites than those upstream of the culvert. Environmental DNA results for the southeastern samples showed presence of coho and ‘any salmonid’ at sites 1 and 5.