April 26, 2021 — Washington state’s Kurt Grinnell, a Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe council member for 16-plus years, died in a single-vehicle wreck Tuesday, April 20, on Mount Pleasant Road in Port Angeles.
Grinnell, 57, a Port Angeles resident, was the tribe’s aquaculture manager and served on the tribe’s hunting and fishing committee for 33 years after being elected to the council in October 2004, reported the local news site Sequim Gazette.
Grinnell was also CEO of Jamestown Seafood, which opened in 2016 and harvests oysters and geoduck and produces oyster seed for commercial sale.
He had previously worked on projects with Canadian salmon giant Cooke that included a joint venture with the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe to produce sterile all-female native steelhead trout at a defunct Cooke salmon pen.