Whatcom Creek chinook program feeds tribes, ecosystem
In highly trafficked areas around lower Whatcom Creek, where it winds through the city of Bellingham’s Maritime Heritage Park and…
Category: Harvest
With traditional gear at the forefront, expanded fishery a hit
The Nisqually Indian Tribe expanded tribal fishing time on the river this fall by combining traditional fishing gear with recovery…
Bugs important for fish in Elwha River
More than a decade since dam removal on the Elwha River, the bug communities in the river’s estuary appear to…
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe fishes river for the first time after dam removal
For the first time in more than a decade, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is exercising its treaty right to…
Muckleshoot’s Ballard Locks program shows promise
When the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe embarked on a pilot program to transport sockeye from the Ballard Locks to a hatchery,…
Suquamish tribal elders hold clam harvest after hiatus
More than 40 Suquamish tribal elders participated in a clam dig in Chico Bay in July, for the first time…
‘Great success’: Baker River sockeye reach record number
A record number of Baker River sockeye are making their way upriver this year. The fisheries co-managers—consisting of the Upper…
This Coast Salish food staple is blooming again
Lavender-colored flowers blooming across prairie landscapes were once a beacon to the region’s Indigenous people that a bounty of root…
Subsistence fishery puts food in tribal members’ freezers
For just a few hours one morning in May, Lummi Nation tribal members in about a dozen aluminum boats took…