Russ Svec, fisheries manager for the Makah Tribe, and Craig Bowhay of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission were part of a presentation this morning on fisheries management to a state senate committee.
You can watch their testimony here: (more…)
The Aberdeen Daily World has an article about the closure of the Chehalis River system to chinook fishing. The closure of the sport fishery for spring and summer Chinook salmon…
The Olympian ran a story this morning on the Squaxin Island Tribe's request to protect salmon in the Johns Creek watershed: The Squaxin Island tribe, concerned about salmon in the…
The Peninsula Daily News published a story about Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's treaty hunting rights being met within the Dungeness Recreation Area. Jamestown tribal chairman Ron Allen is quoted. DUNGENESS —…
It was a meeting long overdue. Representatives of the 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington sat down for the first time in a public meeting with the entire Washington…
Tribes are working with Seattle City Light to study Skagit River chum. The P-I reports:
SEDRO-WOOLLEY — On the Skagit River, biologists netted a 3-foot chum salmon with stripes the color of a bad bruise and vampire teeth just beginning to show.
The fish will be dead within a month. But during the next few weeks, they’ll learn more than they have in the past 30 years about how this wild fish behaves.
The Skagit Valley Herald (subscription required) had a story yesterday about plans to restore tidal flooding to Wiley Slough. The project is a partnership between Skagit River System Cooperative and…
Tacoma News Tribune: Federally protected stocks of salmon and bull trout will lose if the state goes ahead with its proposal to divvy up White River water between Lake Tapps…
Bellingham Herald: The Lummi Indian tribe received a $66,000 grant to design a restoration project on a Nooksack River estuary. The project is one of nine throughout Puget Sound to…