Video: First fish transfer to new Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe hatchery
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe has started transferring fish from its old hatchery to its new facility this summer. Through…
Tag: Steelhead
Skokomish Tribe progressing on steelhead project in Hood Canal
The Skokomish Tribe is wrapping up the first five years of an intensive 16-year study to enhance steelhead populations in…
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe transfers first group of fish to new hatchery
After keeping its old hatchery patched together for the past decade, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe was ecstatic to transfer fish…
Skokomish Tribe Commemorates New Fish Passage at Lake Cushman
The Skokomish Tribe participated in a groundbreaking ceremony at Lake Kokanee this spring to celebrate the beginning of the construction…
Seattle Times looks at Hoh Tribe’s efforts to move out of flood plain
The bill that would transfer the parkland to the tribe would prohibit logging or hunting on the parcel, today in second-growth forest and an important wildlife corridor. The tribe also would be prohibited from developing a casino on the property.
Alarming fish virus in state hatchery-reared steelhead on Bogachiel River
To partially make up for the loss, about 130,000 winter steelhead eggs from the Makah Tribe’s Hoko Falls Hatchery will be transferred to the Bogachiel Hatchery for rearing and release. Those steelhead eggs are genetically similar to the fish raised at the Bogachiel Hatchery.
Receiving these eggs at this time guarantees continued production at the Bogachiel Hatchery.
Indian Country Today: Crab Study, Steelhead Broodstock, Butterfly Bush
Indian Country Today just printed a nice set of stories about natural resources work being done by tribes in Western…
Future of Voights Creek unclear in state budget
From Joe Turner at the News Tribune: Reader points out to me that the no fish hatcheries will close is…
Tired of Salmon?
OLYMPIA – There’s a new bug that’s been going around for the last couple years. State and federal elected officials…