The Everett Herald on the Stillaguamish Tribe's south fork Stilluagmish chinook broodstock program: Stillaguamish tribal biologists are planning DNA tests for each fingerling to determine whether they are male or…
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…)
The Bellingham Herald: A Lummi Nation project would move a portion of Saxon Road off the banks of the south fork of the Nooksack River, allowing the tribe to restore…
We need to be as tough as the salmon themselves if we're going to see their recovery. South Fork Nooksack River native spring chinook are almost extinct and need our…
The (Everett) Herald reported on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s project to recover South Fork Stillaguamish chinook.
The Seattle P-I, KOMO 1000 and The Olympian and others also picked up the story.
The Stillaguamish Tribe learned this week that it has received $634,044, which it will use to capture 15 to 20 male and female wild returning salmon each fall.
Starting next August, the plan is to collect the eggs and sperm, fertilize them and allow them to hatch and grow into fry at a tribal hatchery in Arlington.
The Bellingham Herald reports on Salmon Recovery Funding Board projects in Whatcom County. Lummi Nation was the largest single recipient in the county:
Whatcom County, a salmon conservation group and local tribes on Wednesday received $3.5 million in grants to help struggling salmon populations and restore their habitats in the Nooksack River.
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Efforts range from a Lummi Nation plan to catch adult chinook salmon in the south fork, spawn them and raise juveniles to increase the population’s chances of survival; to a Nooksack Indian Tribe plan to build four logjams on the south fork near Tawes and Caron creeks to provide pools that cool the water for salmon.
The Seattle Times and the Marysville Globe reported on 100 years of hatchery cooperation.
The Seattle Times:
The Tulalip Tribes continued a century-old tradition last week of partnering with state hatcheries for the increased production of Puget Sound salmon.
Since 1907, tribal members have traveled to the Wallace River Hatchery near Gold Bar, working with employees of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to improve chinook- and coho-salmon numbers in the Snohomish River system.
The Bellingham Herald ran a story over the weekend about the Nooksack Tribe's planned habitat restoration in the south fork of the Nooksack River: Chinook salmon returning to the Nooksack…
Bellingham Herald: With only 210 adult chinook salmon returning to the north and middle forks, and 120 returning to the south fork to spawn in 2005, fish managers are grappling…
The few spring chinook salmon that make it back to their spawning grounds on the Nooksack River's south fork next year will be returning to comparative luxury. Deep pools, abundant cover and cool water will greet them at the mouth of Hutchinson Creek near Acme. It will be a vast improvement over the current arrangement - the creek now resembles a quiet side street merging straight into the south fork freeway. Nooksack and Lummi tribal natural resources workers will start this summer on one of the biggest salmon habitat restoration projects in the region in an effort to revive dwindling stocks of spring chinook salmon and bull trout. The project is expected to cost at least $1 million, paid for by federal salmon recovery grants.