Suquamish Tribe, State to Search for Herring Populations
The Suquamish Tribe is adding herring to the mix of forage fish being surveyed in Puget Sound....
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European Green Crab Spring 2018: Big Finds Near Neah Bay
Sightings of the invasive European green crab are on the rise near Neah Bay. As of mid-June 2018,...
Read MoreSuquamish Tribe provides cedar bark harvest opportunity
With a small ax and carving knife, Port Gamble elder and master carver Gene Jones Sr. deftly removes a 1-foot by 3-foot section of bark from a felled cedar log. He shaves off a small section of the rough bark, revealing a...
Read MoreKitsap Sun: Long-awaited coho found in Agate Pass
The Kitsap Sun’s fishing columnist, Dave Shorett, posted an article about the coho salmon that are coming through Agate Pass this fall. Giving props to the Suquamish Tribe’s net pen program that started again after...
Read MoreTribes work together to provide salmon for families
Salmon always has played an important part in tribal diets in western Washington. These days, with a disproportionate number of tribal members suffering from diabetes, eating salmon is more important than ever. Unfortunately,...
Read MoreFraser River sockeye salmon returns among highest recorded
Treaty tribes in western Washington are having a bountiful Fraser River sockeye fishery this season, with at least three times the number of fish returning as expected. More than 30 million sockeye are estimated to return to the...
Read MoreSeattle Times: Huge salmon runs bring cash bonanza for fishermen
The Seattle Times: The biggest sockeye run in nearly a century — 25 million fish — is headed back to British Columbia’s Fraser River and its tributaries. It’s a bonanza for American and Canadian fishermen, who are...
Read MoreIndian 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 Washington: Suquamish: Tribes Seek Crab and People for Hood Canal Crab Study Jamestown S’Klallam: Tribe...
Read MoreAP: Tribes combine science, canoes for water quality
The Associated Press had the following story about the Tribal Canoe Journey: TSAWWASSEN, British Columbia — Pushing off one morning from a beach riddled with dead eelgrass, skipper Larry Nahanee plunked a scientific probe...
Read MoreMystery Bay: It’s clean so let’s keep it that way
Tribes are steadfast about their treaty shellfish harvest rights. If we weren’t, our livelihoods and cultures would disappear. In Mystery Bay, off Marrowstone Island, several tribes are working hard to make sure that their...
Read MoreProposed Restoration Efforts for Doe-Kag-Wats
The Kitsap Sun reported on proposed efforts by the Foss Maritime Company to help restore Doe-Keg-Wats, part of the Suquamish Tribe’s reservation in Indianola. The tidelands area used to be one of the last pristine habitats...
Read MoreAdventures in Coho Stream Surveying
[display_podcast] Jon Oleyar likens his stream surveying to the television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” But rather than seeking evidence to solve a crime, the Suquamish Tribe fisheries biologist hikes...
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