Being Frank

Allocation is being confused with conservation as the states of Oregon and Washington move to restrict non-Indian commercial gillnet fisheries on the lower Columbia River. The states' plan to move…

I’ve met a lot of people in my life, but no one like Sen. Daniel Inouye. A soft-spoken son of Japanese immigrants, he rose to become a war hero and…

Treaty Indian tribes in western Washington are calling on governor-elect Jay Inslee to reset the process of updating the state’s unrealistic fish consumption rate that is supposed to protect us…

I love this time of year. The chinook, coho and chum are coming back and we’re filling our smokehouses and freezers for the coming winter. I am proud to say…

Treaty Indian tribes know the watersheds of western Washington better than anyone else because we have always lived in them. Over the past three years we have been looking at…

Habitat is the key to salmon recovery, but ongoing loss and damage of salmon habitat is driving down salmon populations across western Washington and threatening tribal treaty rights. No matter…

For many years we have said that enforcing existing state and federal pollution laws is one of the most effective actions we can take to recover salmon in western Washington…

All of the pollution that has been – and continues to be – pumped into our air is returning to haunt us at a speed no one ever thought possible.…

The tribes’ fight to preserve and protect the salmon and our treaty fishing rights has mirrored the civil rights struggle in the United States. That’s because treaty rights are civil…

Salmon hatcheries are under attack by people with very short memories. They have forgotten why many hatcheries were built in the first place. Most were built to make up for…