The Everett Herald on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s south fork Stilluagmish chinook broodstock program: Stillaguamish tribal biologists are planning DNA tests for each fingerling to determine whether they are male or female, and whether they are members of a dwindling community: the Stillaguamish River’s south fork chinook strain. If the fish are of the strain, and […]
ALLYN – A pair of smolt traps is helping the Squaxin Island Tribe get a better picture of natural salmon production in the Sherwood Creek watershed. “The Sherwood watershed is one of the most complicated systems in the tribe’s treaty-reserved fishing area,” said Joe Peters, fisheries management biologist for the Squaxin Island Tribe. Tribal biologists […]
A reporter from the Puyallup Herald tagged along with some researchers from the Puyallup Tribe as they conducted their first salmon surveys after the damaging winter floods: One of the major problems biologists see with flooding is what’s known as “scour.” High and often fast-moving water will “dig out all the eggs that were laid […]
PORT GAMBLE BAY (July 9, 2008) – An upclose study of plankton in Port Gamble Bay and Hood Canal could provide telling results about the health of Puget Sound for the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries department. The tribe is monitoring plankton levels along with water quality because […]
After hearing testimony from tribal elders, biologists, historians, treaty experts, as well as testimony from private property owners and non-Indian commercial shellfish growers, Federal District Court Judge Edward Rafeedie followed in the footsteps of the Boldt Decision. He ruled the treaties’ “in common” language meant that the tribes had reserved harvest rights to half of […]
The Stillaguamish Tribe is participating in the Arlington Eagle Festival Feb. 9. The Herald: Arlington bald eagle aficionados want to make the birds more visible to more people. In celebration of the eagles of the Stillaguamish, they’re planning to hold the Arlington Eagle Festival on Feb. 9. The event is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. […]
The Kitsap Sun did a nice follow up of the effects of this week’s rain on salmon eggs in local creeks. Paul Dorn from the Suquamish Tribe is quoted. “Fisheries biologists say a relatively dry fall in the Puget Sound Region followed by Monday’s severe rainstorm was a double-whammy for migrating salmon. While the storm […]
Tribes are working with Seattle City Light to study Skagit River chum. The P-I reports: SEDRO-WOOLLEY — On the Skagit River, biologists netted a 3-foot chum salmon with stripes the color of a bad bruise and vampire teeth just beginning to show. The fish will be dead within a month. But during the next few […]
From the Tacoma News Tribune: The presence of huge numbers of pinks has renewed a protracted dispute among the agencies and interests who control the river’s flow and the fish that inhabit it. “They’ve got a fixed amount of energy and they’re just wasting it beating themselves against the dam,” said fish biologist Russ Ladley, […]
From the Seattle Times: The Puyallup Tribe is working on some innovative ways to boost fisheries on hatchery chinook destined for the Lower Puyallup River, while still raising efforts to protect wild chinook. At the tribe’s new Clarks Creek Hatchery, biologists created rearing ponds that simulate a more natural setting with tree-root wads and gravel […]
