Sonar is helping the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe get an accurate estimate of some species of salmon returning to the Elwha River. The Tribe has been counting the number of returning adult chinook salmon and steelhead using a sonar camera since 2008 with positive results. The camera is placed just below the water’s surface, sending […]
Construction has started on the Skokomish River with the expectation that sockeye salmon will return to the river after being absent for nearly a decade. The Kitsap Sun (subscription required) reported about the construction of two salmon hatcheries and other facilities on the North Fork of the Skokomish River that will support sockeye and chinook […]
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe says that changes to the Elwha River are occurring faster than anticipated since deconstruction of the two fish-blocking dams on the Elwha River started in 2011. The most recent milestone is the 4,700 chinook salmon that returned to the river this year – the most since 1992. “The overall return […]
The Sequim Gazette reported that more than 1,700 chinook salmon were found in the Elwha River, between the Glines Canyon Dam and Strait of Juan de Fuca, during a one-day survey of the river in September by tribal, state and federal biologists. From the story: Results from the survey indicate this year’s Chinook return is […]
More than 500 mature chinook salmon raised in captivity could produce about 1 million eggs at the Lummi Nation’s Skookum Creek Hatchery this year. Of those, more than 600,000 juveniles are expected to be released into the river next spring. The fish are part of a captive broodstock program to preserve threatened South Fork Nooksack […]
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is restoring salmon habitat in the 118-acre Washington Harbor by replacing a roadway and two culverts with a 600-foot-long bridge. The 600-foot-long road and the two 6-foot-wide culverts restrict tidal flow to a 37-acre estuary within the harbor adjacent to Sequim Bay, blocking fish access and harming salmon habitat. The tribe […]
The Kitsap Sun reported on the potentially early-returning chinook to Sinclair Inlet in a few years. GORST — Three years from now, anglers and tribal fishermen should be able to catch chinook salmon in Sinclair Inlet during July — a month earlier than they can now — thanks to a new hatchery program. The Suquamish […]
The Stillaguamish Tribe will have its first Salmon Ceremony in at least 25 years on July 25. The ceremony marks the first time the tribe has had a ceremonial and subsistence chinook fishery since 1985. The Daily Herald: Even when other tribes continued welcoming the fish that are at the center of Coast Salish culture, […]
[display_podcast] The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community held its annual Blessing of the Fleet and First Salmon Ceremony on Thursday. The celebration, marking the beginning of the fishing season, honors and protects the tribe’s fishing fleet. After a seafood feast of salmon, halibut, crab, prawns, mussels and clams, representatives from the Catholic, Shaker and Pentacostal faiths […]
The Daily Herald of Everett reports on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s efforts to capture juvenile chinook and raise them to maturity for use as hatchery broodstock: There was a time when a net cast in the south fork of the Stillaguamish River would bring in a variety of fish. These days, nets often pull up little […]
