OLYMPIA, WA (10/19/05)– How do you measure leadership in natural resource management? When it comes to saving the salmon resource, leadership must be measured in terms of heart, concern for our descendants and the ability to demonstrate courage and integrity in the face of great odds.
I have spoken for the salmon for more than 50 years, and I will tell you this: If salmon go …
SEQUIM (September 11, 2003) – All of Dungeness Bay will be closed to shellfish harvesting this upcoming winter, eliminating oyster and clam gathering opportunities for Indian and non-Indian harvesters. The Washington Department of Health officially closed the bay to tribal and non-tribal shellfish harvests from November through January, when water quality fails state and federal standards.
That’s a big blow to the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, which …
OLYMPIA (May 30, 2003) — Tribal shellfish harvesters across western Washington have been reporting drastic drops in orders due to the continuing Severe Acute Repertory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China. “Geoducks are eaten in restaurants in China, but now because of SARS, it seems like no one even wants to go out in public,” said Dave Winfrey, shellfish biologist with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. Most …
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 …
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