Lummi

As brilliant sunshine gleams off the water, a roaring alder fire roasts king salmon to perfection. An outdoor barbecue to welcome in the weekend? Yes, but not just any barbecue: every Friday, Lummi Nation fisheries commissioners supply fish for elders at the tribe’s Little Bear Creek retirement center and assisted living facility.

“We’ve got to take care of our elders,” says Gordon Wilson, who has been cooking salmon for community members over the course of three decades.

Today, they’ll cook about 300 pounds of hatchery king salmon caught in a tribal test fishery in the Nooksack River. Test fisheries are conducted to determine whether fish are returning in adequate numbers to allow harvest by tribal fishermen. Every Friday, members of the Lummi Fisheries Commission volunteer to cook salmon taken in these test fisheries.

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