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…
The Kitsap Sun started its four-part series about the Skokomish watershed with a report about the Skokomish Tribe and it's connection to the area. Reporter Chris Dunagan interviewed members who…
NISQUALLY – Good harvest management by tribal and state salmon co-managers has led to more chinook reaching the spawning grounds on the Nisqually River this year despite fewer returning chinook.
“Overall fewer chinook returned Puget Sound-wide, but because we managed our fisheries the right way, we were able to reach our escapement goal,” said David Troutt, natural resources director for the Nisqually Tribe. Escapement is the number of salmon that are allowed to reach the spawning grounds.
Nisqually River chinook are part of a larger Puget Sound population of chinook that are listed as “threatened” under the federal Endangered Species Act. (more…)
The North County Outlook: Breeding bald eagles often construct alternate nests in trees within a mile of the original. In Snohomish County, a pair of eagles seemed especially fond of…
The Skagit Valley Herald has an article about PSE’s Baker River project:
The utility hopes the new $40 million fish passage system and $112 million total in other improvements in the works will quadruple current numbers of Baker River sockeye salmon returning to the watershed to spawn.
The Tacoma News Tribune features the Ohop restoration project: It’s back to nature for Ohop Creek near Eatonville, where what advocates call the state’s most ambitious salmon habitat recovery effort…
OLYMPIA (April 5, 2005) – Did you take a shower this morning? Eat a bowl of cereal? Drive to work? If you did any of those things, you killed wild salmon.
You see, millions of other folks did the same thing. Together, these and other everyday activities take a toll on salmon and the habitat they need to survive.
No one is telling you to stop showering, eating, driving to work or any of the other things you do each day. So why do some people keep saying that the tribes should stop fishing?
YELM (March 18, 2005) – Volunteer salmon watchers rediscovered a run of late coho salmon that hadn’t been seen in the Nisqually River for more than a decade.
In late January volunteer salmon watchers started seeing dozens of coho salmon in Nisqually River tributaries, much later than normal. “On some of these streams, volunteers have gone out diligently for months and had hardly seen any salmon,” said Jeanette Dorner, salmon recovery manger for the Nisqually Tribe. “We asked them to keep looking for a few more weeks, and all of a sudden they started seeing coho.”
SNOHOMISH COUNTY (July 3, 2003) -- Though thousands of commuters pass over the Snohomish River and its familiar bevy of sloughs every day as they drive along Interstate 5, beneath…