Can Tribal Hatcheries Help Feed Southern Resident Orcas?
Northwest tribes are supporting southern resident orcas by releasing more fish from their...
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Tag: Chum
Why Aren’t Steelhead Making It Past The Hood Canal Bridge?
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe has been trying to figure out why juvenile steelhead are not...
Read MoreVideo: NWIFC/WDFW South Sound chum salmon test fishery
For more than 30 years, the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have been conducting a test fishery near Kingston, WA for chum salmon. The purpose is to give fisheries managers an...
Read MoreEarthFix on KUOW: Fish spawning between the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams
EarthFix, through Seattle public radio station KUOW, reported on the latest changes in the Elwha River, including observing juvenile salmon emerging from egg nests in the river’s upper watershed. Two Lower Elwha Klallam...
Read MoreKitsap Sun: Suquamish Tribe discusses this fall’s returning salmon
In an article discussing the annual return of killer whales to Puget Sound, the Kitsap Sun also talked with the Suquamish Tribe about salmon returning to the Kitsap Peninsula, and what folks could expect to see in local creeks....
Read MoreKitsap Sun: Rain Helping Coho and Chum Move Upstream
The Kitsap Sun spoke with the Suquamish Tribe’s fisheries biologist Jon Oleyar about the salmon returning to Chico Creek in Central Kitsap this fall: “The timing of these rains is just about perfect,” said Jon...
Read MoreSuquamish Hopes for Early-Timed Chinook Run At Gorst Soon
In a few years, fishermen might be able to hit the water for chinook in Sinclair Inlet a month earlier than they can now. Hatchery chinook generally return to the inlet near Gorst in August and September. An effort to expand the...
Read MoreFish for a buck!
After spawning out the male and female adult chinook and chum at Grovers Creek Hatchery this fall, the Suquamish Tribal staff has more carcasses than it knows what to do with. So the public takes it off their hands – for a...
Read MoreHood Canal Summer Chum plan adopted
The Kitsap Sun reported that a plan has been adopted to help recover Hood Canal summer chum: “A formal recovery plan to restore populations of Hood Canal summer chum has been adopted by the National Marine Fisheries...
Read MoreKitsap Sun: Skokomish River Restoration Project Gets $1 Million Lift
Kitsap Sun: The dream of restoring the Skokomish River estuary to a more natural condition could soon be realized now that almost $1 million is available for the massive project. Removing about 5,000 feet of dikes will infuse...
Read MoreVolunteers, Tribe Boost Chum Numbers In Neighborhood Creek
TACOMA (January 23, 2004)
Read MoreTribes Change Harvest To Benefit Summer Chum
QUILCENE (Aug. 21, 2002)
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