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Tribal leaders, Congressional representatives and Secretary of Interior Jewell discuss tribal issues

Suquamish Tribe Chairman Leonard Forsman and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, following a morning of discussions about tribal issues and climate change.
Suquamish Tribe Chairman Leonard Forsman and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, following a morning of discussions about tribal issues and climate change.

6th Congressional District Representative Derek Kilmer hosted a tribal leaders summit at the Suquamish Tribe’s House of Awakened Culture on April 24. Tribal leaders participated in panel discussions about self governance, tribal sovereignty, economics and natural resources. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell was the keynote speaker, who then joined Suquamish Chairman Leonard Forsman on a tour of the Port Madison Indian Reservation. Photos of the day’s event can be found here.

From the Tacoma News Tribune:

Representatives of nine Washington Indian tribes told Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Thursday that consequences of climate change are threatening their economies and cultures and that they need federal help to deal with intensifying climate-related problems.

The tribes, with low-lying reservations on Washington’s ocean coast and along Puget Sound, said rising sea levels caused by global warming, ocean acidification and more severe weather patterns are endangering the natural resources on which their cultures are based. (more…)

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Future of Voights Creek unclear in state budget

From Joe Turner at the News Tribune:

Reader points out to me that the no fish hatcheries will close is misleading too. The budget says (on Page 397): “During the 2007-09 biennium, the department shall not make a permanent closure of any hatchery facility currently in operation.” So, reader wonders, “if that means that since Voights Creek hatchery hasn’t been in “operation” since it was damaged in the floods that this leaves a door open for it to be permanently closed.”
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Tacoma Weekly: Hatchery closing could devastate local fishing – and beyond

From the Tacoma Weekly:

Fishermen – tribal, commercial and sports – around the south Puget Sound area could be receiving more bad news if a proposal to close the 90-year-old Voights Creek Hatchery is approved in the state’s final budget later this month.

While recent statements from state wildlife officials and Puyallup Tribe officials working on plans to save the hatchery reflect cautious optimism that the hatchery might yet survive, there is plenty of concern to go around – in all quarters of the fishing industry – if it doesn’t.
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Puyallup Tribe “scouring for survivors” after floods

A reporter from the Puyallup Herald tagged along with some researchers from the Puyallup Tribe as they conducted their first salmon surveys after the damaging winter floods:

One of the major problems biologists see with flooding is what’s known as “scour.” High and often fast-moving water will “dig out all the eggs that were laid down,” said Marks, ruining chances for increased numbers of young fish. He noted that coho and chum salmon spawning “were more or less lost” during the recent flood.
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Puyallup Tribal News: Elders to fish first

Puyallup Tribal News:

A special fishing season for tribal elders takes place next month. From June 10 to June 13, the river will be open for elders to fish for ceremonial and subsistence use from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Chris Phinney, harvest management biologist for the Puyallup Tribe's Fisheries/Hatchery Department, explained the rules in place. This special fishing season is open only to Puyallup Tribal members aged 50 and older. There will be no helpers allowed and no exceptions to the rules, he said. "They have to be tribal elders to be on the river."

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