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…
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 spawn nearly 150 four-year-old steelhead. (more…)
A videographer produced a series of videos of the South Sound Science Symposium earlier this month. The symposium was hosted by the Squaxin Island Tribe and brought together scientiests from…
From the Federal Way Mirror: The salmon population in the Hylebos Creek is growing thanks to the work of students at Spring Valley Montessori School in Federal Way. Every year…
The Kitsap Sun published a story looking at the Kitsap steelhead population, based on the recently issued steelhead management plan guidelines released by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. From…
The Arlington Times reports on student tours at the Stillaguamish Hatchery:
Kip Killebrew, fish enhancement biologist with the hatchery, showed the students how harvested eggs and sperm are combined in the hatchery’s trays to fertilize the eggs.
The Seattle Times has a story about the Tulalip Tribes change to an earlier returning hatchery chinook broodstock:
Spring 2007 will be known as a time when Tulalip fishermen were pulling chinook salmon out of the bay — and selling them for $6 a pound.
The Daily Herald reported on Tulalip's hatchery, discussing the issue of selective fisheries: Unmarked salmon caught in certain areas must be returned to the water. That's the state's way of…
King 5 reported on Tulalip's hatchery last week. Chairman Mel Sheldon and senior biologist Kit Rawson were interviewed. See the story here.
The North Kitsap Herald writes about the tagging and clipping efforts by the Suquamish Tribe as they prepare to release chinook from their Grover's Creek hatchery: Tagging the fish and…