Beach Seines
PTMSC has sampled the same eelgrass bed at Fort Worden for more than 20 years by pulling a 100 foot seinenet across the eelgrass and documenting the species and number of specimens found.
How it works. Several times in the Spring and 
Summer, staff members row a boat to the eelgrass bed lying south of the Marine Exhibit building. Groups of visiting students and adult volunteers, pull the 100-foot net through the eelgrass bed. When the net is pulled onto shore, the specimens are quickly transferred to a wading pool set up on the beach. There they sorted and documented. Most specimens are returned to the eelgrass bed; a selected few may be collected for display in the Marine Exhibit.
Where the data can be found: The in-house, long-term data set accumulated through years of seine data is an incredible resource for anyone studying near shore eelgrass-based food webs. Currently this data set is available only in paper version.
Number of PTMSC volunteers: 10 to 20 per seine, often including students
Are there openings for new volunteers'? Yes, seine dates are advertised to all volunteers and new volunteers are welcome. Identification skills are helpful but not required.