Nooksack, Lummi key partners in salmon education program
North Sound tribal members joined groups of Bellingham fourth graders this spring as they visited a local beach to study…
Being Frank: Ocean fisheries are not a threat to salmon recovery
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the…
Baker River sockeye program a model for fish passage
In the spring, a fish passage facility on Baker Lake is busy as thousands of juvenile salmon, mostly sockeye, swim…
Squaxin Island Tribe, partners team for Olympia oyster restoration
A partnership between the Squaxin Island Tribe and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has allowed one of the tribe’s first foods…
Hatchery program supports treaty salmon harvest on Cascade River
From the gravel banks along the Cascade River in the Skagit watershed, a few fishing nets stretched into the flow…
College, high school students exchange science, culture lessons
When groups of students from the University of Washington (UW) and Neah Bay High School spent a week together this…
Passage Home: Tribes remove barriers to salmon habitat
Restoring fish passage to spawning habitat is one of the most cost-effective ways to recover salmon runs. The Tulalip…
Cutting-edge technique helps Quileute Tribe’s restoration project
A new scientific tool has boosted the Quileute Tribe’s ability to monitor river restoration projects. Environmental DNA (eDNA) can detect…
Tribes respond to continued spread of invasive crab
Invasive European green crab continue to infiltrate waters of the Salish Sea, with detections in the homelands of the Tulalip…