Northwest Indian College students on the Tulalip campus are getting field experience monitoring water quality in their own backyard. A few years ago, the Tulalip Tribes Natural Resources Department constructed…
The Herald writes about Tulalip's concern about ocean survival rates and degrading salmon habitat: The ocean survival rates for both hatchery and wild salmon in the Puget Sound region have…
The Tulalip Tribes’ Bernie Kai-Kai Gobin Salmon Hatchery released a record number of coho salmon this year, thanks to rearing improvements that led to a high survival rate.
In June, tribal hatchery staff released 1.3 million coho smolts from brood year 2010. This brings the total number of hatchery salmon released this year to 12 million, including brood year 2011 chinook and chum.
“We have made slight changes to the way we do things as far as fertilizing and handling of eggs,” said Jesse Rude, assistant manager of the hatchery. “Our survival rates have gone from around 80 to 85 percent up to 95 percent.” (more…)
The Tulalip Tribes have been working with Werkhoven Dairy farm to turn cow manure into sustainable energy. The Seattle Times: Like so many dairy farmers, the Werkhovens felt the pinch…
The Tulalip Tribes recently honored retiring regional Forest Service Supervisor Rob Iwamoto for his work to protect tribal treaty rights to hunt, fish and gather on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.…
The Tulalip Tribes held a workshop about gathering traditional plants on public lands. Press release: Representatives from numerous Washington Tribes, and Officials from the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park…
KING5 and The Daily Herald covered the Tulalip Tribes plans to thin 88 acres of forestland this summer. The Daily Herald: The Tulalip Tribes forestry department manages about 8,000 acres…
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…)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given a final go-ahead to the Tulalip Tribes' project to remove dikes and tide gates to allow salt water from Possession Sound to…
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…)