Back to the River documentary premieres at Seattle Aquarium
The premiere of the documentary, Back to the River, was held at the Seattle Aquarium Feb. 2. The movie details the story of the treaty rights struggle from the pre-Boldt…
Skokomish, Squaxin Island and Yakama tribes testify before state Senate
Representatives from the treaty tribes in western Washington testified February 20 in the Senate committee on Energy, Natural Resources and Marine Waters. They discussed tribal fisheries management, the economic benefits…
KUOW: Tribal Canoe Journey and water quality science go hand-in-hand
KUOW posted an article and video featuring this year's Tribal Canoe Journey and United States Geological Survey scientist Eric Grossman. Grossman has been working with Northwest tribes for several years…
More education is a key to protecting Oakland Bay
SHELTON – People living along Oakland Bay don’t think they have anything to do with a significant increase in pollution in the bay, according to a survey by the Sa-Heh-Wa-mish…
Squaxin Island Tribe clam growth research video
The Squaxin Island Tribe numbers individual clams on several growth plots around southern Puget Sound to get a good idea of how quickly shellfish grow on various beaches. Here is…
Video from the South Sound Science Symposium
A videographer produced a series of videos of the South Sound Science Symposium earlier this month. The symposium was hosted by the Squaxin Island Tribe and brought together scientiests from…
Squaxin Natural Resources blog on smolt trapping
Over at the Squaxin Island Tribe natural resource’s blog, they just added some new content on their smolt trapping efforts.
From the post:
The Squaxin Island Natural Resources (SINR) is currently collecting data to estimate the number of coho salmon smolts outmigrating from Mill, Cranberry, Goldsborough, Schumacher and Sherwood Creeks. These five creeks empty in to Deep South Puget Sound, with in the Squaxin Island Tribes usual and accustom areas.
Squaxin Island Tribe Tracking Coho in Sherwood Creek
ALLYN – A pair of smolt traps is helping the Squaxin Island Tribe get a better picture of natural salmon production in the Sherwood Creek watershed.
“The Sherwood watershed is one of the most complicated systems in the tribe’s treaty-reserved fishing area,” said Joe Peters, fisheries management biologist for the Squaxin Island Tribe. Tribal biologists are unsure about how many coho are rearing annually in Shumacher Creek, a tributary to Sherwood Creek, which flows into Mason Lake. Sherwood Creek flows out of Mason Lake.
One smolt trap – a safe and effective devices for catching and counting juvenile salmon as they migrate to sea – is installed at the mouth of Schumacher Creek in the upper watershed just above Mason Lake. Another is operating near the mouth of Sherwood Creek close to where it enters Puget Sound.
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Squaxin Island Tribe responds to dioxin in Oakland Bay
From the Squaxin Island Tribe’s blog this morning:
Preliminary data released today by the state Department of Ecology has identified dioxin in sediment throughout Oakland Bay.
Outside of Shelton Harbor, the dioxin is distributed uniformly with an average concentration of 35 parts per trillion (ppt or pg/g). “At first glance, the distribution pattern suggests the dioxin may be a historical legacy,” said John Konovsky, the tribe’s environmental program manager.
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Squaxin Island Tribe transfers over 1 million coho to netpens
From the Squaxin Island Tribe’s natural resources blog:
This week the Squaxin Island Tribe Natural Resources (SINR) and Washington State Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) started hauling the first batch of juvenile coho to the South Sound Net Pens (SSNP) located in Peale Passage. SSNP is a co-managed facility by the SINR and WDFW that has released an average of 1.5 million coho smolt yearly to benefit Sport and commercial fisheries through out the Puget Sound.