The Daily Herald of Everett reports on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s efforts to capture juvenile chinook and raise them to maturity for use as hatchery broodstock:
There was a time when a net cast in the south fork of the Stillaguamish River would bring in a variety of fish.
These days, nets often pull up little more than debris. (more…)
From the Squaxin Island Tribe’s natural resources blog:
This week the Squaxin Island Tribe Natural Resources (SINR) and Washington State Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) started hauling the first batch of juvenile coho to the South Sound Net Pens (SSNP) located in Peale Passage. SSNP is a co-managed facility by the SINR and WDFW that has released an average of 1.5 million coho smolt yearly to benefit Sport and commercial fisheries through out the Puget Sound.
KPLU had a pretty good story on the strange disappearance of juvenile coho in deep South Sound.
Seattle Times: While Lake Washington sockeye garner most of the attention, another sockeye run in the Olympic Peninsula is trying to make a comeback. Young sockeye from Lake Ozette are…
The Suquamish Tribe has been involved with a new salmon habitat restoration project near Silverdale on Clear Creek. The project will add new sorts of habitat features to the creek that supports coho and chum salmon, along with trout.