Herald: Stillaguamish Tribe gathering juvenile chinook to save dwindling run
The Daily Herald of Everett reports on the Stillaguamish Tribe’s efforts to capture juvenile chinook and raise them to maturity…
Tag: Fish
Daily Herald: Tulalip police get Coast Guard training
The Daily Herald of Everett reports: Tulalip police officers who patrol the water off the coast of the Tulalip Indian…
Nooksack Tribe revisits traditional dip net fishing
Nooksack cultural resources director George Swanaset Jr. recently made a dip net to demonstrate the traditional fishing method to young adults in the tribe’s YouthBuild program
The Olympian “thumbs down” on racist graffiti
From Sunday’s paper: For years there have been people in this community who have held on to their hate-filled beliefs…
Vandals target tribal fishermen
From the Olympian: A vulgar graffiti message scrawled on the upstream side of the Old Pacific Highway bridge across the…
Tribes, salmon and floods
Eric De Place at the Sightline Daily Score blog writes an interesting piece about salmon and floods: …when I wrote…
Tired of Salmon?
OLYMPIA – There’s a new bug that’s been going around for the last couple years. State and federal elected officials…
Puyallup Tribal News: Elders to fish first
A special fishing season for tribal elders takes place next month. From June 10 to June 13, the river will be open for elders to fish for ceremonial and subsistence use from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
Chris Phinney, harvest management biologist for the Puyallup Tribe’s Fisheries/Hatchery Department, explained the rules in place. This special fishing season is open only to Puyallup Tribal members aged 50 and older. There will be no helpers allowed and no exceptions to the rules, he said. “They have to be tribal elders to be on the river.”
SVH: Restoration project best for coho, Skagit
The Skagit Valley Herald commended a recent project on the Upper Skagit Reservation, which brought coho salmon to tribal land…