Job SummaryResponsibilities involve project management related to shellfish fisheries resource co-management and research. The employee has the primary responsibility for the design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and develops…
During a recent community meeting in Sequim, a panel of weather, fish and wildfire scientists came together to discuss how this winter's low-snow pack will affect the Dungeness River Valley this summer. Jamestown…
Tightline Adventure, a non-profit sports fishing television outfit, recently visited the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. They took a look at the tribe's upriver supplementation program as well as their juvenile…
The Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe partnered with the Washington Department of Ecology in 2014 to clean up Point Julia on Port Gamble Bay. Check out the video to see the…
“Heavy winter heavy floods from a few years ago washed away almost two acres,” said Blake Smith, enhancement manager for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. “We needed to find a way to protect what was left of the site, but also help protect the fish we’re trying to save.” The new facility on Wilkeson Creek has been in the planning stages since the tribe bought the site of a former trout hatchery in the mid-90s.
The tribe will use hundreds of wood pieces to build several dozen logjams along the bank of the creek. Traditional flood protection techniques, such as rip rap, can be harmful to fish. “Dumping boulders along a bank can be cheep and easy flood protection, but it ends up making flooding worse for people downstream because it makes the water move faster,” Smith said.
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Joe Peters, harvest management biologist for the Squaxin Island Tribe, posts up about how tribal chum management works in deep South Sound: While Non-Tribal fleet, recreational and our neighboring Tribes…
The Herald writes about Tulalip's concern about ocean survival rates and degrading salmon habitat: The ocean survival rates for both hatchery and wild salmon in the Puget Sound region have…
Hundreds of native leaders, witnesses and climate scientists will join policy-makers and non-government organizations for groundbreaking dialogue in what is planned to be an annual meeting at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
The Hoh, Makah and Quileute tribes and the Quinault Indian Nation created the symposium because indigenous coastal people are among the most affected by climate change. (more…)
The Quileute Tribe concluded a decades-long effort to gain additional land to move the tribal school, tribal council buildings and individual tribal members homes out of the tsunami zone with…