Quileute Tribe Boosts Sol Duc Summer Run
The Sol Duc River on the northwestern Olympic Peninsula runs at its lowest and warmest when summer chinook return to…
Tag: Fisheries
Seattle Times: Elwha Steelhead Broodstock Program Successful
The Seattle Times posted this story about Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s steelhead broodstock program efforts recently: Tribe reviving wild Elwha…
Puyallup Tribal News: Second elders fishing season yields 17
The Puyallup Tribal News covered this year’s elders fishery: For the second year, Puyallup Tribal elders were given the first…
Herald reports on EPA grants to tribes
The Daily Herald of Everett reported on the $2 million in grants awarded to tribes by the EPA, describing how…
Tribe preserving threatened South Fork Stillaguamish River chinook
ARLINGTON – The Stillaguamish Tribe has everything it needs to start a chinook supplementation program in the South Fork of…
Tribal leaders commend return to science
Environmental news site Grist reports on the Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem Conference, quoting Swinomish Chairman Brian Cladoosby
Despite low chinook run, co-managers boost escapement
NISQUALLY – Good harvest management by tribal and state salmon co-managers has led to more chinook reaching the spawning grounds…
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.”
Don’t let fishing be the scapegoat
Fishing opportunities in Northwest waters have just about disappeared. It’s a situation that has strained relations between Indians and non-Indians – the state, local governments, environmental organizations, businesses and even fishermen. It’s also a condition we can improve, if we follow the truth, and that truth goes right to habitat.
Fishermen have made the lion’s share of sacrifice so far, and cutting back on fisheries to the degree we have has not been easy on our people. Empty freezers and smoke houses hurt deeply, physically, economically and culturally.