Puyallup Tribal News: Second elders fishing season yields 17
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…
Two videos from the Puyallup Tribe’s elders fishery
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…
Stillaguamish Tribe to hold Salmon Ceremony on July 25
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…
Tulalip Tribes won’t set crab pots during sport chinook fishery
As reported on the Seattle Times Reel Time Northwest blog, the Tulalip Tribes will not have crab pots in the water when the recreational "bubble" fishery opens Friday. The bubble…
Tribe preserving threatened South Fork Stillaguamish River chinook
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 chinook returning to the South Fork, it has been a challenge to collect enough adult fish to spawn.
South Fork chinook are genetically distinct from North Fork chinook, and always have been smaller in number.
The tribe’s hatchery program in the North Fork has supplemented that population for 20 years, with about 1,500 fish returning to the North Fork each year. Meanwhile, chinook returns to the South Fork have declined to fewer than 100 fish. (more…)
Employment
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Smithsonian magazine features Squaxin Island Tribe’s geoduck fishery
From the Smithsonian Magazine (hat-tip to Squaxin Natural Resources blog): Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were…
Fish Health Program
Fish Health DownloadsNWIFC member tribes created the tribal fish health program in 1988 to meet the growing fish health needs of their salmon enhancement and supplementation programs. Today the fish…
Feds pay Tulalips and others for poor salmon returns on Fraser River
The Daily Herald of Everett reported on the federal relief money given to tribes for the failure of the Fraser River sockeye fishery: The Tulalips and eight other local American…
Tribes close fishery early to ensure future runs
STEILACOOM (October 3, 2008) – Tribal fishing in Chambers Bay will close about two weeks early to make sure that enough adult chinook make it back to a hatchery to produce the next generation of fish.