Job Title: Fisheries Program Manager Department: Natural Resources Reports To: Natural Resources Director Job Status: Exempt Type: Full-time JOB SUMMARY: Under the direction of the Natural Resources Director, this position is responsible for the overall management of the fisheries program and overseeing the fisheries technical work of the Natural Resource Department, including the harvest and […]
The premiere of the documentary, Back to the River, was held at the Seattle Aquarium Feb. 2. The movie details the story of the treaty rights struggle from the pre-Boldt era to tribal and state co-management. The movie includes the voices and personal accounts of tribal fishers, leaders and others active in the treaty fishing […]
The Quileute Tribe is awaiting word on legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton to finalize a land acquisition detailed in a Seattle Times story here. Meanwhile, President Obama signed legislation just before Christmas approving the acquisition of 37 acres for the Hoh Tribe to move out of the tsunami zone and provide continuity […]
Leaders, scientists, policy analysts and legal staff of the Coast Salish Nations will gather April 26-27 to strengthen approaches, relationships and discuss potential issues of the environmental impacts of climate change on tribal natural resources, traditional rights and cultural sustainability. The two-day Impacts of Climate Change on Our Tribal Lifeways in the Salish Sea Ecosystem […]
Adult and juvenile coho will once again swim in the upper reaches of Chalaat Creek on the Hoh Tribe’s reservation for the first time in decades thanks to a fish passage improvement completed by the Hoh Tribe this fall. Chalaat Creek is a tributary to the lower Hoh River. The 5-mile long creek meanders through […]
The Sol Duc River on the northwestern Olympic Peninsula runs at its lowest and warmest when summer chinook return to its waters every year. Despite being in one of the world’s greatest temperate rain forests, near-drought conditions often occur in late summer before the fall rains begin in earnest. “These fish are survivors,” said Roger […]
The Seattle Times posted this story about Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s steelhead broodstock program efforts recently: Tribe reviving wild Elwha steelhead In an effort to keep the wild steelhead in the Elwha River on the Olympic Peninsula from disappearing forever, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is hard at work raising them in a hatchery. The […]
The Puyallup Tribal News covered this year’s elders fishery: For the second year, Puyallup Tribal elders were given the first crack at the fishing season. Because of lower returns over the years, many local tribes, including Puyallup, have severely cut down on days tribal members are allowed to fish in order to help re-generate the […]
The Daily Herald of Everett reported on the $2 million in grants awarded to tribes by the EPA, describing how the Stillaguamish and Tulalip tribes plan to use the money: Fisheries experts for the Stillaguamish Tribe plan to use their money to conduct an inventory of culverts throughout the watersheds upon which the tribe has […]
ARLINGTON – The Stillaguamish Tribe has everything it needs to start a chinook supplementation program in the South Fork of the Stillaguamish River – except the fish. The tribe hired additional field technicians and acquired an old trout farm to spawn and rear threatened South Fork Stillaguamish River chinook. But because there are so few […]
