The Skokomish Tribe and Mason Conservation District collaborated on a project to install more than 200 pieces of large woody debris (logs and rootwads) into channels within the Skokomish Tidelands. This video explains why and how massive logs are being transported into the tidelands. The story behind this project can be found here.
Including traditional foods – like huckleberries, nettles, camas and salmon – into tribal members’ everyday diets is the goal of the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty program. The two year project is funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is supported by Northwest Indian College’s Traditional Plants and Foods Program.
“This effort is about eating healthy and remembering who we are and where we come from,” said …
A new video is up on the NWIFC video feed, featuring the Nisqually tribal crab fishery:
The F24 Fishing Xperience took some time on the Puyallup River to talk to some tribal fishermen as they unloaded their catches at the Clarks Creek bridge. The impact of loss of habitat on salmon populations and hatchery management was discussed, among other topics.
Coho stacked up underneath a couple of culverts in the Goldsborough Creek watershed show the need for the restoration of Midway Creek by the Squaxin Island Tribe and its partners.
The Midway Creek fish passage project is part of a larger Goldsborough Creek watershed project by the Squaxin Island Tribe.
The chinook spawning season just wrapped up at the Puyallup Tribe’s Clarks Creek hatchery. Here’s a look at how it happens.
The Lummi Nation distributed sockeye salmon to tribal members last month for families to can and store for the winter.
“The tribe puts fish away as much as possible when we have an abundance, for ceremonies and all the functions that the tribe sponsors,” said Randy Kinley Sr., policy representative for the tribe. “It’s very important to take care of your people’s needs culturally.”
The fish …
The Stillaguamish Tribe’s captive juvenile fall chinook soon will have a new home. The tribe has converted an old trout farm into a hatchery facility at Brenner Creek on the South Fork Stillaguamish River.
The tribe expects the Brenner fish hatchery to be completed by the end of the year. The tribe has been rearing the fall juvenile chinook from brood years 2008, 2009 and 2010 …
Swinomish tribal members beach seined for pink salmon last weekend at Lone Tree Point.
KUOW (Seattle) has put out a three-part series on the preparation of the removal of the two fish-blocking Elwha River dams, the 108-foot tall Elwha Dam and 210-foot tall Glines Canyon Dam. The series covers everything from the importance of collecting a variety of data pre-dam removal, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s otter project and the function of the tribe’s new hatchery.
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