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 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 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 […]
For the second year, the Puyallup Tribe of Indians was able to open a limited ceremonial and subsistence fishery for elders on spring chinook. The two day fishery was open last week. Here are some videos from that fishery. Herman Dillon Jr., the tribe’s fisheries commission chairman, talks about the various drifts that tribal fishermen […]
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, […]
From the Tacoma Weekly: Fishermen – tribal, commercial and sports – around the south Puget Sound area could be receiving more bad news if a proposal to close the 90-year-old Voights Creek Hatchery is approved in the state’s final budget later this month. While recent statements from state wildlife officials and Puyallup Tribe officials working […]
A University of Washington environmental journalism student blogs about the decline of salmon fisheries and what it means to the Swinomish Tribe.
From the Olympian: A vulgar graffiti message scrawled on the upstream side of the Old Pacific Highway bridge across the Nisqually River is a sign that racism hasn’t died out near the river, a Nisqually tribal official said Tuesday. The message, scrawled on the upstream side of the bridge, read: “F— the Indians fish killers,” […]
OLYMPIA – There’s a new bug that’s been going around for the last couple years. State and federal elected officials and bureaucrats seem to be coming down with it more than anyone else. It’s called “salmon fatigue” and from what I can tell, it’s a brain infection that makes you tired of trying to save […]
NISQUALLY – Good harvest management by tribal and state salmon co-managers has led to more chinook reaching the spawning grounds on the Nisqually River this year despite fewer returning chinook. “Overall fewer chinook returned Puget Sound-wide, but because we managed our fisheries the right way, we were able to reach our escapement goal,” said David […]
