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Posts Tagged ‘Hatchery Fish’

Seattle Times: Elwha Steelhead Broodstock Program Successful

By • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog

The Seattle Times posted this story about Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s steelhead broodstock program efforts recently:

Tribe reviving wild Elwha steelhead

In an effort to keep the wild steelhead in the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula from disappearing forever, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is hard at work raising them in a hatchery.

The fish being raised at the tribe’s hatchery aren’t hatchery fish, but

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Major Success in Lower Elwha Klallam Steelhead Broodstock Program

By • Jun 10th, 2009 • Category: News

LOWER ELWHA – The setup looks complicated. Two tables covered with data sheets, laptops, glass slides, a digital scale and instruments for taking blood samples are set up next to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s hatchery ponds. Steelhead are being pulled from the ponds and weighed, measured, sampled and spawned. Each of nearly a dozen people have a specific job in this organized chaos to help …


Tulalip Tribes won’t set crab pots during sport chinook fishery

By • Jun 4th, 2009 • Category: NWIFC Blog

As reported on the Seattle Times Reel Time Northwest blog, the Tulalip Tribes will not have crab pots in the water when the recreational “bubble” fishery opens Friday.

The bubble fishery gives sport fishermen a chance to catch hatchery salmon returning to Tulalip Bay. The harvest focuses on abundant hatchery fish while minimizing the impact to wild fish.

This year, the tribes are keeping crab …


All Habitat Is Critical

By • Jan 3rd, 2005 • Category: Being Frank

January 3, 2004

Habitat is the key to wild salmon recovery in western Washington.
That’s why the treaty tribes who have always called this region
home were surprised by the Bush Administration’s plan to reduce
by more than 80 percent the critical habitat needed to recover wild
salmon.

We know that harvest and hatcheries also are critical to recovering wild salmon stocks, of which three in …


Lummi Culvert Project Opens Up Critical Habitat For Salmon

By • Dec 11th, 2002 • Category: NWIFC Blog

RACEHORSE CREEK (Dec. 6, 2002) — Thanks to a cooperative project between the Lummi Nation and the state Department of Natural Resources, coho salmon in a tributary of the Nooksack River are enjoying access to habitat formerly blocked by an impassable culvert.

A survey of the site on Dec. 3 found more than two dozen spawning coho – most of them native, non-hatchery fish – spawning …