Ahead of demolition, tribes lament loss of Mukilteo research center

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MUKILTEO — Jason Gobin remembers scrubbing fish tanks as a high school intern at the Mukilteo research center on the shore of Possession Sound.

Gobin, the Tulalip fisheries director, sang and drummed alongside other leaders from the Tulalip, Swinomish and Suquamish tribes Monday. It was a send off for the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research site of over 40 years, where gray paint is flaking off, some windows are broken and there are black stains where a fire burned through the center last year.

The buildings will be demolished in the coming weeks. Songs passed down from cultural stewards like Harriette Shelton Dover echoed off the exterior walls.

For years the eyesore was home to studies on the effects of ocean acidification and other pollutants on marine life. Saltwater tanks housed Dungeness crab, lingcod, geoduck, juvenile salmon and other species threatened by humans’ actions.

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