The Nisqually Indian Tribe regularly samples juvenile salmon as they head out to the open ocean. This is how they get a better understanding of how salmon habitat helps salmon grow and survive. Watch as tribal researchers deploy a beach seine to sample some salmon in Puget Sound: Watch the Nisqually Tribe sample juvenile salmon […]
As the flow of the White River was held back by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Russ Ladley carefully searched for young salmon stranded in small pools. Unfortunately, most of the fish he found weren’t able to make it back to the river before the river’s flow dropped by two-thirds. The U.S. Army Corps […]
In August and September, the Stillaguamish Tribe spawned adult chinook collected on the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. The tribe’s hatchery supplementation program has provided a comprehensive and long-running coded-wire tag harvest rate indicator data set. Next spring, the tribal natural resources staff will release the offspring of these fish to ensure that the […]
Lummi Nation tribal fishermen are teaching young tribal members the traditional method of harvesting salmon in a reef net. The tribe had four new wooden canoes made for reef netting. Traditionally, fishermen suspended the reef net between two canoes. “It’s an imitation of the seafloor, like a reef, that’s why it’s called a reef net,” […]
Earlier this month, Swinomish tribal fishermen used a purse seine to harvest Fraser River sockeye in the San Juan Islands for ceremonial and subsistence use. Some of the fish was distributed for tribal members to cook or can, and the rest was stored for ceremonial use during the winter. (more…)
Lummi Nation’s Return to Reef Netting from NW Indian Fisheries Commission on Vimeo. Lummi Nation fishermen are returning to the traditional method of harvesting salmon in a reef net. The tribe held reef net fisheries for hundreds of years at traditional sites such as Cherry Point, known in the tribal language as Xwe’chi’eXen. After the […]
For more than 30 years, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have been conducting a test fishery near Kingston, WA for chum salmon. The purpose is to give fisheries managers an idea of the size of the run that is headed for South Sound. The fishery takes place over […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe worked with a local landowner in Sequim, WA to remove a 600-foot long roadway and two culverts and replace them with a bridge in Washington Harbor. The roadway and culverts were blocking tidal flow from flooding 37 acres of an estuary that was prime habitat for salmon. The results of the […]
Wildlife biologists from the Stillaguamish and Tulalip tribes are using elk scat to estimate the population of the Nooksack herd in the Acme, Wash., area. Tribal biologists partnered with Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment to collect DNA from the intestinal mucus coating the scat. “This is a non-invasive method that does not […]
Pink salmon are flooding into the Nisqually River. The Nisqually Indian Tribe is counting every single one of them. Nisqually Tribe tracking historic pink run from NW Indian Fisheries Commission on Vimeo.
