The Daily Herald of Everett reports on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s efforts to capture juvenile chinook and raise them to maturity for use as hatchery broodstock:
There was a time when a net cast in the south fork of the Stillaguamish River would bring in a variety of fish.
These days, nets often pull up little more than debris. (more…)
Puyallup Tribal News looks at the tribe's plans for Boise Creek: One of the most critical spawning areas for salmon in the Puyallup River Basin is about to get some…
The Bellingham Herald has a story about a Nooksack tribal crabber: (Jeff) Williams, a Nooksack Indian, has been fishing since the 1970s. He estimates that fewer than 12 of the…
From the Tacoma News Tribune: The presence of huge numbers of pinks has renewed a protracted dispute among the agencies and interests who control the river’s flow and the fish…
The Nisqually Tribe is continuing their work tracking the late Nisqually coho run. King 5: For years biologists worried that a small run of Coho salmon on the Nisqually River…
YELM (March 18, 2005) – Volunteer salmon watchers rediscovered a run of late coho salmon that hadn’t been seen in the Nisqually River for more than a decade.
In late January volunteer salmon watchers started seeing dozens of coho salmon in Nisqually River tributaries, much later than normal. “On some of these streams, volunteers have gone out diligently for months and had hardly seen any salmon,” said Jeanette Dorner, salmon recovery manger for the Nisqually Tribe. “We asked them to keep looking for a few more weeks, and all of a sudden they started seeing coho.”
CLALLAM BAY (December 1, 2004) – It’s not often that removing a road will provide better access, but for fish it does just that.
Salmon and trout in the Clallam River now have more access to spawning and rearing habitat after an old logging road along the river was partially removed and closed in August. The joint project between the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Washington Department of Natural Resources involved removing landfill, culverts and a bridge along the nearly 1-mile stretch of road near Clallam Bay.
HOH RESERVATION (Oct 14, 2002) An invasive plant, imported as an ornamental, threatens to impair stream function critical to fish on the Hoh River. The plant, Japanese knotweed, has the…
SKOKOMISH NATION (June 24, 2002)
LOWER ELWHA (May 21, 2002)