Squaxin Island Tribe Celebrates Community Effort Allowing Reopening of Harvest on Beach
The Squaxin Island Tribe worked cooperatively with neighbors and government partners to improve water quality to open shellfish harvest near…
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Sequim Gazette: Jamestown S’Klallam supports Taylor Shellfish geoduck farm
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe vocalized support during a recent Dungeness River Management Team meeting, where local company Taylor Shellfish Farms discussed its…
Video: Coming Back – Restoring the Skokomish Watershed
Members of the Skokomish Watershed Action Team, which includes the Skokomish Tribe, have been collaborating for a decade on how…
Puget Sound Treaty Indian Tribes, Shellfish Growers Reach Pact
OLYMPIA (May 18, 2007) – Puget Sound treaty Indian tribes and commercial shellfish growers have finalized an agreement that will protect and enhance the resource while resolving legal issues from a federal court ruling that re-affirmed treaty-reserved tribal shellfish harvest rights.
The pact resolves lingering legal issues from a 1994 federal court ruling that upheld the tribes’ treaty-reserved shellfish harvest rights. The agreement preserves the health of the shellfish industry, recognizes the importance to the tribes of their shellfish harvest rights and provides greater shellfish harvest opportunities for everyone in the state.
China Epidemic Damaging Tribal Shellfish Exports
OLYMPIA (May 30, 2003) — Tribal shellfish harvesters across western Washington have been reporting drastic drops in orders due to…