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Posts Tagged ‘Beaches’

Kitsap Sun: Shellfish Settlement Between Tribes, Growers Beginning to Unravel

By • Jul 15th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog

The Kitsap Sun had a couple of pieces yesterday on the tribal challenge to some filings by private tideland owners. From Chris Dunagan’s report:

Two years ago, Western Washington tribes were given $33 million to settle a 25-year legal battle with commercial shellfish growers. At the time, both the tribes and the growers were widely praised for their cooperation.

But today the conflict continues, with

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Squaxin Island Tribe clam growth research video

By • Jun 24th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog, Video

The Squaxin Island Tribe numbers individual clams on several growth plots around southern Puget Sound to get a good idea of how quickly shellfish grow on various beaches. Here is more information on the clam growth tracking project.

Daniel Kuntz, the tribe’s beach manager, explains the process of digging, counting and measuring the clams each month.

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Tribal leaders commend return to science

By • Feb 10th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog

Environmental news site Grist reports on the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference, quoting Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby:

For Brian Cladoosby of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Council, the call to action is personal. Cladoosby has lived in the area for the entirety of his life and has seen definitive changes in the environment in that time: beaches being closed, fisheries dwindling, even 70 degree waters

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Media coverage of shellfish settlement

By • May 17th, 2007 • Category: NWIFC Blog

The Kitsap Sun covered the tribes’ and shellfish growers settlement:

Washington shellfish growers won’t have to share clams and oysters grown on their beaches, thanks to a $33 million legal settlement with 17 Puget Sound tribes.

The agreement, finalized Tuesday, has been in the works for 17 years — ever since U.S. District Judge Edward Rafeedie ruled that tribes are entitled to take up to half …


North Kitsap Herald: Tribe receives oil spill trailer

By • Jan 22nd, 2007 • Category: NWIFC Blog

The North Kitsap Herald ran a story January 17 about the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe receiving an emergency oil spill response trailer from the state Department of Ecology:

After the Port Gamble Bay was hit hard by a preventable oil spill in October 2005, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe decided it never wanted to be that helpless again.

Working with the Washington State Department of Ecology, …


Clam Die Off On Hood Canal Beaches Affects Tribal Harvesters

By • Jul 22nd, 2002 • Category: NWIFC Blog

BRINNON (July 22, 2002) Sometime this past winter hundreds of thousands of clams on three popular beaches in north Hood Canal inexplicably died. The die off occurred on three cornerstone beaches for area treaty tribes, compelling them to decrease harvest by up to 40 percent. “We’re going to slow down our harvesting, because these beaches are very important to us,” said David Herrera, Skokomish Tribal Fisheries …