The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe wants to know which age class of steelhead is surviving best within the Dungeness River watershed. While checking smolt traps and conducting spawning ground surveys this spring, the tribe took tail and scale samples from 500 juvenile steelhead in five creeks between Sequim and Port Angeles: Seibert, McDonald, Matriotti, Bell and […]
The Herald reports on the Tulalip Tribes’ new genetic testing equipment: The state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration are using DNA testing almost exclusively and no longer use the equipment that tests protein molecules in a process called electrophoresis. “There was a lot of equipment that we were not […]
The Tulalip Tribes Natural Resources Department is taking its fisheries stock assessment lab to the next level. The tribe has acquired genetic testing equipment so that lab technicians can determine on-site whether a chum salmon originated from the tribal hatchery. Tulalip has genetically marked its chum salmon since the 1990s, but didn’t have the ability […]
