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…
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Indigenous scientists exchange knowledge at local workshop
Understanding water quality and fish health data is critical to protecting and managing treaty resources such as salmon. A group…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Court decision ensures lasting water resource for everyone
Lummi Chairman Tim Ballew II wrote a piece in The Seattle Times about water management and the push by some…
Lummi Nation members honor traditions at historical fishing site
For the first time in generations, members of the Lummi Nation gathered on the shores of Henry Island, a traditional…