NWIFC Magazine: Quinault leads the fight on fish disease
The work by the Quinault Indian Nation to combat fish disease is one of the featured stories in the new NWIFC Magazine. You can download the entire magazine as a…
Treaty Tribes, State Develop Salmon Seasons That Protect Weak Wild Stocks
OLYMPIA – State and tribal salmon co-managers have crafted a conservation-based package of fisheries for 2009 that will protect weak wild runs while providing limited harvest for treaty tribal and state sport and commercial fisheries.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the annual cooperative season-setting process known as North of Falcon. The name refers to a cape on the northern Oregon coast that marks the southern boundary of where the treaty tribes and the states of Washington and Oregon cooperatively manage fisheries.
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Recommendations to the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress
Recommendations from the 24 treaty tribes represented by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission regarding treaty tribal natural resources management in the Pacific Northwest.…
Swinomish Blesses the Fleet
The Skagit Valley Herald covered the Swinomish Tribe's Blessing of the Fleet
Tribes Applaud Federal Funding For Natural Resources
OLYMPIA (December 20, 2007) — The status quo isn’t always something to cheer about, but when it comes to securing federal funding for tribal natural resource management during tough budgetary times, the treaty Indian tribes in western Washington are applauding the efforts of the state’s congressional delegation.
“Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks came through for us Indian people, but really, everyone benefits from the work we do to preserve, protect and restore our natural resources,” said Billy Frank, Jr., chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.
The omnibus funding bill signed by the President Dec. 20 restores $1.8 million for tribal participation in the Pacific Salmon Treaty. That brings total tribal funding to near status quo funding of $4.1 million. The funding is shared by tribes in western Washington and along the Columbia River, as well as the Metlakatla Indian community in Southeast Alaska.
Swinomish Blessing of the Fleet
The Skagit Valley Herald covered the Swinomish Tribe's annual Blessing of the Fleet. The full article is available online: Serving hundreds of pounds of crab, prawns, clams and Columbia River…
Larger Returns Don’t Equal Salmon Recovery
August 7, 2002
Here we go again.
A second year of big returns of hatchery chinook returning to the Columbia River – coupled with more good returns of coho to Puget Sound – and some folks already are talking loudly again about easing salmon habitat protection measures.
Unfortunately, what these returns really amount to are two small spikes on the overall downward trend of the salmon resource. Two years of good returns do not amount to salmon recovery. In fact, these larger returns actually may cause more harm than good.