Puyallup Tribal News: Second elders fishing season yields 17
The Puyallup Tribal News covered this year's elders fishery: For the second year, Puyallup Tribal elders were given the first crack at the fishing season. Because of lower returns over…
Feds pay Tulalips and others for poor salmon returns on Fraser River
The Daily Herald of Everett reported on the federal relief money given to tribes for the failure of the Fraser River sockeye fishery: The Tulalips and eight other local American…
Swinomish Blesses the Fleet
The Skagit Valley Herald covered the Swinomish Tribe's Blessing of the Fleet
Tribes Study Salmon Migration On The Hamma Hamma River
ELDON (June 16, 2003) — Using a small net, Greg Sullivan scoops the remaining salmon from a smolt trap’s holding tank and counts his catch before releasing the juvenile fish back into the river. “That’s the last of them for today,” says the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe’s natural resources technician, who checks the trap on the Hamma Hamma River twice a week. “That makes 1,253 juvenile salmon. By far the most I’ve seen here at one time.”
And that’s a good sign. The more fish that show up in the smolt trap’s tank, the more accurate of a count the tribe can get on how many juvenile salmon, or smolts, are migrating from the freshwater of the Hamma Hamma River into the saltwater of Hood Canal. The smolt trap is part of a project conducted by the Port Gamble and Skokomish tribes, a local landowner, Long Live the Kings, the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Careful Harvest Management Leads To Healthy Salmon Returns In 2002
SNOHOMISH COUNTY (Feb. 18, 2003) - Taking advantage of salmon runs boosted by favorable freshwater and marine conditions, tribal and state managers are allowing ever-larger numbers of fish to return…