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Kitsap Sun: Skokomish River to support sockeye, chinook salmon again

  • Post author:Tiffany Royal
  • Post published:July 15, 2014
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

Construction has started on the Skokomish River with the expectation that sockeye salmon will return to the river after being absent for nearly a decade. The Kitsap Sun (subscription required)…

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KUOW: Fishing The Lummi Way

  • Post author:Kari Neumeyer
  • Post published:August 31, 2010
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

KUOW interviewed Lummi fisherman and tribal council member Cliff Cultee for a story about fishing for Fraser River sockeye: Cultee: "My grandfather and uncles, they all had their own purse…

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Makah Tribe subject of KPLU series

  • Post author:Debbie Preston
  • Post published:August 26, 2010
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

KPLU's Liam Moriarty has a conversation with Micah McCarty, Makah tribal councilman, about the People of the Cape as part of the Reflections on the Water, Conversations about the Salish…

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Coast, Strait Tribes Receive Compensation for Sockeye Run

  • Post author:Tiffany Royal
  • Post published:January 16, 2009
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

The Peninsula Daily News reported on the Makah, Lower Elwha Klallam and Jamestown S'Klallam tribes receiving federal funding to make up for poor sockeye runs from British Columbia's Fraser River.…

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Feds pay Tulalips and others for poor salmon returns on Fraser River

  • Post author:Kari Neumeyer
  • Post published:January 13, 2009
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

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…

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Baker Dam fish passages could boost sockeye runs

  • Post author:Kari Neumeyer
  • Post published:August 20, 2007
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

The Skagit Valley Herald has an article about PSE’s Baker River project:

The utility hopes the new $40 million fish passage system and $112 million total in other improvements in the works will quadruple current numbers of Baker River sockeye salmon returning to the watershed to spawn.

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Maintaining An Ancient Tradition, Upper Skagit Distribute Salmon To Elders

  • Post author:Bryan Bougher
  • Post published:July 21, 2003
  • Post category:NWIFC Blog

SEDRO-WOOLLEY (July 23, 2003) -- The Upper Skagit Tribe has honored its elders, who continue to play a central role in the community, since before anyone can remember. While honoring…

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