Muckleshoot: Lake Tapps plan puts fish at risk
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King County Journal: 550 salmon from Issaquah Hatchery transplanted into Tibbetts Creek
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Seattle Times: Lake Ozette Sockeye
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Puyallup Tribe saving, tracking steelhead
The Puyallup Tribe recently kick started two projects to help save Puyallup River steelhead, one of the stocks currently being considered for listing under the federal Endangered Species Act. The…
Seattle Times: Sequim elk in urban squeeze
Seattle Times: Nothing defines this sun-soaked Olympic Peninsula city quite like its herd of Roosevelt elk. Visitors to the town of 4,700 pass welcome signs adorned with a steel elk…
King 5: Nisqually River late coho
The Nisqually Tribe is continuing their work tracking the late Nisqually coho run. King 5: For years biologists worried that a small run of Coho salmon on the Nisqually River…
Kitsap Sun: Suquamish Netting Few Salmon
From today's Kitsap Sun: Salmon managers allowed Suquamish Tribe fishers to set their nets in Chico Bay on Monday, but their low catch suggests that relatively few chum salmon remain…
New Hatchery Tagging Trailer Helps Salmon
OLYMPIA (May 2, 2005) – A new automatic clipping and tagging trailer is assisting treaty tribes in western Washington in more efficiently marking and identifying hatchery salmon.
“Being able to tell hatchery and wild salmon apart is an important step in recovering weak salmon stocks,” said Michael Grayum, executive director of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. The NWIFC is a natural resource consortium that provides services to 20 member tribes in western Washington.
Clipping the adipose fin of a hatchery reared salmon allows them to be easily identified by fisheries managers. The adipose is a non-functional fin above the tail. The new trailer clips the fin without the fish being handled or anesthetized.