Port Gamble Bay

Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe cleans up Point Julia, Port Gamble Bay

The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe has spent 2014 focused on improving the health of Port Gamble Bay, especially Point Julia, where tribal members regularly gather to exercise their treaty rights.

The tribe has been working through a list of more than 400 items for removal, including old creosote pilings and derelict fishing gear, on the beaches north and south of Point Julia. Also on the removal list is a large rusting barge north of Point Julia, a dilapidated pier and an old concrete boat launch, all of which were removed this fall. (more…)

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Port Gamble S’Klallam transfers juvenile coho to Port Gamble Bay net pens

A juvenile coho plunges into the Port Gamble net pens. Click on the picture for more photos.

A quarter million juvenile coho salmon took a quarter-mile ride through a 4-inch pipe when the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe recently transferred the young fish from shore to the tribe’s floating net pens in Port Gamble Bay.

The fish came from the Washington Department Fish and Wildlife’s George Adams Hatchery near Shelton. Arriving in a tanker truck, the fish first were transferred into a 2,300-gallon fiberglass holding tank, then flushed through the pipe into the net pens. (more…)

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