The Case Inlet and Pickering Passage nearshore habitats are composed of the western shore of Case Inlet and North Bay as well as the shorelines along Pickering Passage and around Harstene and Squaxin Islands.

Sheerwood Creek is the largest tributary in the Case and Pickering watershed. There are many small tributaries that flow into these waters creating many pocket estuaries.

For more information see the Salmon Habitat Protection and Restoration Plan for Water Resource Inventory Area 14, Kennedy-Goldsborough and the Salmonid Habitat Limiting Factors Water Resource Inventory Area 14, Kennedy-Goldsborough Basin. For priority projects in this area see the file called Case Inlet and Pickering Passage Nearshore -Priority Habitat Projects and Programs.