Job SummaryResponsibilities involve project management related to shellfish fisheries resource co-management and research. The employee has the primary responsibility for the design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and develops…
With a small ax and carving knife, Port Gamble elder and master carver Gene Jones Sr. deftly removes a 1-foot by 3-foot section of bark from a felled cedar log.…
The Kitsap Sun's fishing columnist, Dave Shorett, posted an article about the coho salmon that are coming through Agate Pass this fall. Giving props to the Suquamish Tribe's net pen program…
Unfortunately, with salmon runs in decline and fewer tribal members making their living as fishermen, the resource is harder to come by.
The Swinomish Fish Co. has long provided canned salmon to Swinomish tribal elders, and in recent years, has started providing it to the Suquamish and Tulalip tribes as well. (more…)
Treaty tribes in western Washington are having a bountiful Fraser River sockeye fishery this season, with at least three times the number of fish returning as expected. More than 30 million sockeye are estimated to return to the Fraser River in British Columbia this year – the highest run size recorded since 1913.
View photos of the fishery in the San Juan Islands on NWIFC’s Flickr feed.
Nine treaty tribes in western Washington have treaty-reserved rights to catch Fraser River sockeye in U.S. waters before they migrate upstream. The Fraser River sockeye treaty tribes are Lummi, Jamestown S’Klallam, Lower Elwha Klallam, Nooksack, Makah, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Suquamish, Swinomish and Tulalip. (more…)
The Seattle Times: The biggest sockeye run in nearly a century — 25 million fish — is headed back to British Columbia's Fraser River and its tributaries. It's a bonanza…
Indian Country Today just printed a nice set of stories about natural resources work being done by tribes in Western Washington: Suquamish: Tribes Seek Crab and People for Hood Canal…
The Associated Press had the following story about the Tribal Canoe Journey:
TSAWWASSEN, British Columbia — Pushing off one morning from a beach riddled with dead eelgrass, skipper Larry Nahanee plunked a scientific probe into the water and steered the hand-carved cedar canoe toward the next landing.
His ancestors, the Coast Salish Indians, had paddled the same waters to Washington for hundreds of years before him, using canoes as spiritual vessels.
This summer, as dozens of Northwest tribes make the same journey, their canoes will tow U.S. Geological Survey equipment to measure the health and quality of the water. (more…)
Tribes are steadfast about their treaty shellfish harvest rights. If we weren't, our livelihoods and cultures would disappear. In Mystery Bay, off Marrowstone Island, several tribes are working hard to…
The Kitsap Sun reported on proposed efforts by the Foss Maritime Company to help restore Doe-Keg-Wats, part of the Suquamish Tribe’s reservation in Indianola. The tidelands area used to be one of the last pristine habitats of Puget Sound until a disastrous oil spill hit the beach in December 2003.
From the article:
A proposed restoration plan and environmental assessment would use the money for five projects: