WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.700 This is a commercial razor clam dig 00:00:02.700 --> 00:00:05.790 that's a tribal-only dig and we call it 00:00:05.790 --> 00:00:08.050 our annual school clothes dig. 00:00:09.750 --> 00:00:12.690 So we're heading up to Wreck Creek right up here, and 00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:14.639 We're on the Quinault tribal beach, 00:00:14.639 --> 00:00:17.490 the reservation beach, we call it the Point 00:00:17.490 --> 00:00:19.920 Grenville Beach. We hold it at the end of 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:24.180 end of August each year, and usually have 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:26.490 about a two-day dig and it allows people to 00:00:26.490 --> 00:00:28.439 come up and commercially harvest clams. 00:00:28.439 --> 00:00:30.960 They take them back to our fish 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.420 processing plant in Taholah, and then 00:00:33.420 --> 00:00:35.790 they sell the clams there for cash 00:00:35.790 --> 00:00:38.040 money and it comes in very handy 00:00:38.040 --> 00:00:40.300 at the beginning of the school season. 00:00:43.900 --> 00:00:45.720 We have built a relationship over the years 00:00:45.730 --> 00:00:47.620 with the sanctuary that has become 00:00:47.620 --> 00:00:49.780 actually quite fruitful for us. We now 00:00:49.780 --> 00:00:51.219 work together on a number of different 00:00:51.219 --> 00:00:54.129 projects, we got together to get NOAA 00:00:54.129 --> 00:00:57.309 resources dedicated to mapping the area 00:00:57.309 --> 00:00:59.469 off our shore out here, in particular 00:00:59.469 --> 00:01:02.019 the Quinault Canyon area is critical to Quinault 00:01:02.019 --> 00:01:03.339 because we need to know more about 00:01:03.339 --> 00:01:06.100 our ocean ecosystems out there. We also have a 00:01:06.100 --> 00:01:07.780 very good educational outreach 00:01:07.780 --> 00:01:10.780 relationship with the sanctuary now. They've come 00:01:10.780 --> 00:01:12.039 down and visited with our schoolchildren 00:01:12.039 --> 00:01:14.710 in the school. They've worked with them 00:01:14.710 --> 00:01:16.570 trying to get them interested in the 00:01:16.570 --> 00:01:19.240 ocean and in the technology that we use to 00:01:19.240 --> 00:01:22.210 monitor the ocean. So we found a really 00:01:22.210 --> 00:01:23.979 good solid relationship with the 00:01:23.979 --> 00:01:26.459 Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:30.880 So they've always had clams as part of their 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:34.060 subsistence, their sustenance, and also as trade items. 00:01:34.060 --> 00:01:35.860 They would dry them and take them down to the 00:01:35.860 --> 00:01:37.270 Columbia River and trade them for other 00:01:37.270 --> 00:01:40.960 fish and things of that nature in the days. 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:42.909 It's been so important for Quinault that it's part 00:01:42.909 --> 00:01:45.529 of their culture, it's part of their being. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:49.000 Man that's a beauty. 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:52.689 That's about as big and nice 00:01:52.689 --> 00:01:54.889 as a razor clam can get. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:58.980 How do you like cooking them? 00:01:58.980 --> 00:01:59.700 Frying them. 00:01:59.700 --> 00:02:01.200 Frying them, yep. 00:02:02.330 --> 00:02:04.690 So he's washing the sand off of them so when he goes 00:02:04.690 --> 00:02:06.770 and sells them they won't give him any trouble about that. 00:02:12.140 --> 00:02:14.120 So you're at the Quinault Pride Seafood 00:02:14.130 --> 00:02:19.950 fish plant, that's a Quinault-owned business. 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:25.080 And you saw the Quinault tribal members coming 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:26.970 in and selling their commercial razor 00:02:26.970 --> 00:02:28.320 clams that they dug on the beach this 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:31.140 morning. So some of these people were 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:33.100 digging a hundred pounds of clams or better. 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:36.660 He did it all by himself! He's learning. 00:02:36.820 --> 00:02:39.240 Those digs are really important for 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.900 families, for, just as I said, school clothes, 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:43.860 school supplies. 00:02:43.860 --> 00:02:44.940 It just helps everybody with 00:02:44.940 --> 00:02:46.890 supplemental income, whether it be for 00:02:46.890 --> 00:02:49.430 the children or just for their households. 00:03:01.780 --> 00:03:06.000 Nice clams. Nice weather, too.