The Puyallup Herald features research by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians on salmon productivity in the Puyallup watershed: Scientists with the Puyallup Tribe of Indians are looking at the impact of last winter’s floods on salmon species and results this spring aren’t good. January’s floods along the Puyallup River and its tributaries washed away much […]
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 on the entire Chehalis River and its tributaries was announced Tuesday by the state Department of Fish & Wildlife. The season had been scheduled to […]
The Skagit Valley Herald: For the first time in 50 years, the coho salmon have returned to the Upper Skagit Reservation. To get them there, crews had to tear out a series of stacked culverts and remove 300 dump-truck loads of sediment that blocked the cohos’ path upstream. The tribe and Skagit County also worked […]
From today’s Kitsap Sun: Salmon managers allowed Suquamish Tribe fishers to set their nets in Chico Bay on Monday, but their low catch suggests that relatively few chum salmon remain in saltwater, the tribe’s harvest manager said. Jay Zischke said it is not likely that commercial fishing will be opened again. Despite the low number […]
Chris Dunagan at the Sun does a good job every year with his “salmon spawning” story. This year he features the Suquamish Tribe’s spawning surveyors (reg required): “I’m really impressed with the amount of fish I’m seeing and how far up they are in all the tributaries,” said Jon Oleyar, a biologist for the Suquamish […]
CLALLAM BAY (December 1, 2004) – It’s not often that removing a road will provide better access, but for fish it does just that. Salmon and trout in the Clallam River now have more access to spawning and rearing habitat after an old logging road along the river was partially removed and closed in August. […]
FORKS (Aug. 6, 2002) — A cloud of mosquitoes follows Gene Gaddis and his crew of two as they scramble over a fallen tree in a small tributary of the Bogachiel River on the Olympic Peninsula. Swatting at the ravenous pests, the Quileute fisheries crew proceeds upstream, stopping at regular intervals to measure the width […]
