Tribes collaborate to test invasive crab trapping method
Lummi Nation Aquatic Invasive Species Division staff deployed a series of innovative “crab slab” traps around the Lummi Sea Pond…
Tag: Habitat
Tribes test innovative trap in battle against invasive crab
As invasive European green crab populations have spread in Washington waters, the bays and sloughs around the Tulalip Tribes’ homelands…
Derelict boat removed from valuable intertidal habitat
For nearly 15 years, the sunken 65-foot sailboat called Windjammer sat derelict near the shore of Kiket Island, where the…
Fisheries co-managers drafting joint hatchery policy
For decades, treaty tribes have operated their own hatchery programs to help sustain the region’s salmon and steelhead populations. Tribes…
Culvert inventory a new approach to widespread fish passage challenges
Beneath the network of roads that allow people to move across the landscape, fish access to habitat is often disrupted…
Floating ban put in place to protect Nooksack River salmon
Floating down the South Fork Nooksack River in an innertube, kayak or other flotation device as a summer pastime was…
Restoring Snohomish estuary habitat to improve salmon survival
Where the Snohomish River meets the saltwater of north Puget Sound, the recently completed Blue Heron Slough project was the…
Fight in “brushfire mode” against invasive crab
In the ongoing battle to curb the spread of invasive European green crab in the marine waters of Washington state,…
Lummi hatchery hard at work amidst second year of South Fork die-offs
For the second year in a row, chinook salmon are going belly up in the South Fork Nooksack River before…