Video: NWIFC/WDFW South Sound chum salmon test fishery
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…
EarthFix on KUOW: Fish spawning between the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams
EarthFix, through Seattle public radio station KUOW, reported on the latest changes in the Elwha River, including observing juvenile salmon emerging from egg nests in the river's upper watershed. Two…
Kitsap Sun: Suquamish Tribe discusses this fall’s returning salmon
In an article discussing the annual return of killer whales to Puget Sound, the Kitsap Sun also talked with the Suquamish Tribe about salmon returning to the Kitsap Peninsula, and…
Kitsap Sun: Rain Helping Coho and Chum Move Upstream
The Kitsap Sun spoke with the Suquamish Tribe's fisheries biologist Jon Oleyar about the salmon returning to Chico Creek in Central Kitsap this fall: "The timing of these rains is…
Suquamish Hopes for Early-Timed Chinook Run At Gorst Soon
In a few years, fishermen might be able to hit the water for chinook in Sinclair Inlet a month earlier than they can now.
Hatchery chinook generally return to the inlet near Gorst in August and September. An effort to expand the run timing would have fish swimming into Sinclair Inlet in July. (more…)
Fish for a buck!
After spawning out the male and female adult chinook and chum at Grovers Creek Hatchery this fall, the Suquamish Tribal staff has more carcasses than it knows what to do…
Hood Canal Summer Chum plan adopted
The Kitsap Sun reported that a plan has been adopted to help recover Hood Canal summer chum: "A formal recovery plan to restore populations of Hood Canal summer chum has…
Tribes Change Harvest To Benefit Summer Chum
QUILCENE (Aug. 21, 2002)