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Tag: Salmon Harvest

Video: Swinomish Tribe Harvests Pink Salmon
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Video: Swinomish Tribe Harvests Pink Salmon

September 2, 2015September 1, 2015

In odd years, when pink salmon return to the Skagit River, members of the Swinomish Tribe harvest them with a…

Lummi Nation members honor traditions at historical fishing site
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Lummi Nation members honor traditions at historical fishing site

August 24, 2015August 24, 2015

For the first time in generations, members of the Lummi Nation gathered on the shores of Henry Island, a traditional…

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Bellingham Herald: Lummi salmon harvest feeds nation, world

December 19, 2014

Tim Ballew II, chairman of the Lummi Nation, wrote the following in the Bellingham Herald today: With the largest native…

Lummi fishermen pass down reef net heritage
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Lummi fishermen pass down reef net heritage

September 15, 2014September 28, 2022

Lummi Nation fishermen are returning to the traditional method of harvesting salmon in a reef net. The tribe held reef…

Video: Swinomish tribe harvests Fraser sockeye
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Video: Swinomish tribe harvests Fraser sockeye

August 25, 2014

Earlier this month, Swinomish tribal fishermen used a purse seine to harvest Fraser River sockeye in the San Juan Islands…

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Lummi Nation holds reef net fishery at Cherry Point

September 17, 2013

For the first time in generations, the Lummi Nation held a reef net fishery at Cherry Point. “It feels good…

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Kitsap Sun: Cooperation at Salmon Harvest Talks

April 2, 2008

Chris Dunagan of the Sun had a great story on a later afternoon meeting between tribal and state fishermen during…

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“Treaty tribes have helped cut salmon harvest by 84 percent”

March 20, 2006

Georgiana Kautz, the Nisqually Tribe’s natural resources manager, had a good opinion piece on harvest published in the News Tribune…

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Hatcheries Aren’t Habitat

June 8, 2004

There’s no question that hatcheries have a role to play in salmon recovery, but hatchery fish aren’t wild fish, just…

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