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 […]
Treaty Indian tribes have invested millions of dollars in hatchery programs and habitat restoration, but poor marine survival continues to stand in the way of salmon recovery. Marine survival rates for many stocks of chinook, coho and steelhead that migrate through the Salish Sea are less than one-tenth of what they were 30 years ago. […]
Fisheries managers studying poor ocean survival of salmon are concentrating their research on juvenile fish and their preferred prey. Several tribes are collaborating on studies slated to begin in 2014 as part of the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project. The Tulalip, Nisqually, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Lummi, Swinomish and Sauk-Suiattle tribes are among the collaborators that […]
Olympic Peninsula treaty tribes are helping monitor fishers that have been reintroduced to Olympic National Park. Starting this summer, and for the next several years, the Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Makah and Quileute tribes will be collecting hair samples and photos of the small mammals. Fishers are members of the […]
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe is finding more juvenile salmon in small bays than other nearshore environments, including large estuaries in Hood Canal and Admiralty Inlet. “We’re not seeing fish near the mouths of big river systems like we expected, such as the Duckabush or Dosewallips rivers,” said Hans Daubenberger, the tribe’s habitat biologist. “Fish […]
With a small ax and carving knife, Port Gamble elder and master carver Gene Jones Sr. deftly removes a 1-foot by 3-foot section of bark from a felled cedar log. He shaves off a small section of the rough bark, revealing a smooth tan inner layer. About an hour later, after more scoring, cutting and […]
For the first time in several generations, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe held a blessing ceremony for its fishermen this summer. “We wanted to recover the history behind the ceremony but also create an event that was reflective of the tribe today,” said Nicole Aikman, one of the organizers. “We knew it had been done […]
The Kistap Sun reported recently that the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe and Puget Sound Restoration Fund are working together to restore kelp and oyster beds in Port Gamble Bay. Shellfish are important to the tribe, both culturally and economically. From the story: S’Klallam tribe chairman Jeromy Sullivan said putting resources back into the bay is […]
The Kitsap Sun has reported that the U.S. Navy will pay $9 million to Hood Canal tribes as part of a mitigation agreement for natural resources impacted by the construction of the Navy’s explosives handling wharf at Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor. The Skokomish, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam and Lower Elwha Klallam tribes will use […]
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 […]
