From the Olympian this morning, an article about using trees from behind Alder Lake dam to restore a stretch of salmon habitat: Logs and other woody debris delivered during winter storms to the reservoir behind Alder Dam are a safety hazard for boaters and a headache for Tacoma Power maintenance crews in this popular recreation […]
As reported on the Seattle Times Reel Time Northwest blog, the Tulalip Tribes will not have crab pots in the water when the recreational “bubble” fishery opens Friday. The bubble fishery gives sport fishermen a chance to catch hatchery salmon returning to Tulalip Bay. The harvest focuses on abundant hatchery fish while minimizing the impact […]
From the Smithsonian Magazine (hat-tip to Squaxin Natural Resources blog): Craig Parker popped his head above the surf, peeled off his dive mask and clambered aboard the Ichiban. We were anchored 50 yards offshore from a fir-lined peninsula that juts into Puget Sound. Sixty feet below, where Parker had spent his morning, the seafloor was […]
From the Olympian: A vulgar graffiti message scrawled on the upstream side of the Old Pacific Highway bridge across the Nisqually River is a sign that racism hasn’t died out near the river, a Nisqually tribal official said Tuesday. The message, scrawled on the upstream side of the bridge, read: “F— the Indians fish killers,” […]
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 salmon habitat at the site. County leaders on Tuesday, Jan. 13, approved a deal among the county, Lummi Nation and Whatcom Land Trust to relocate […]
The Kitsap Sun, Tacoma Daily Index and Tacoma News Tribune reported on the signing of the settlement agreement between Skokomish Tribe and the City of Tacoma on Jan 12. From the Kitsap Sun: For 80 years, Tacoma’s Cushman Dam Project in southern Hood Canal has been like an open wound for the Skokomish people, tribal […]
This report is an overview of the natural resources management activities of the treaty tribes in western Washington. The tribes and their Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission are active in all aspects of natural resources management including hatcheries, fisheries management, and habitat protection and enhancement.
The Bellingham Herald has a story about a Nooksack tribal crabber: (Jeff) Williams, a Nooksack Indian, has been fishing since the 1970s. He estimates that fewer than 12 of the 1,900-member Nooksack tribe are fishing commercially these days — a major shift for a tribe where everyone once made a living harvesting seafood from the […]
After spawning out the male and female adult chinook and chum at Grovers Creek Hatchery this fall, the Suquamish Tribal staff has more carcasses than it knows what to do with. So the public takes it off their hands – for a buck a fish. “It helps us get rid of the fish, which we […]
The Bellingham Herald: Lummi Nation has scheduled a public hearing Wednesday on the tribe’s new water quality standards. (more…)
