BLYN — Two years ago, when the Dungeness Bay was closed for shellfishing by the state Department of Health because of fecal coliform pollution, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe was hard hit.
The closure cut the tribe’s commercial shellfish operation by one-third and shut down the public harvest shellfish area near the Dungeness boat ramp.
Since then, however, the tribe has been working to solve the problem by conducting research into the source of the fecal coliform still tainting sections of the bay.
In September, the tribe began the second phase of a two-part circulation study, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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