Tag: Tulalip

Tulalip has been mass marking its hatchery chinook since 1993 as part of an aggressive salmon recovery program in Puget Sound. New state fishing regulations, however, may set the salmon recovery program back and reduce stock in Puget Sound waters.

TULALIP (Jan. 16, 2007) – The latest information about tidal energy projects in Puget Sound can be found online at a Web site created by Tulalip Tribes environmental liaison Daryl Williams.

TULALIP (Jan. 8, 2006) – The Tulalip Tribes will soon open a new laboratory where natural resource specialists can analyze the fish and shellfish samples used to shape fisheries management.

Around the turn of the last century, Tulalip paddlers delivered salmon to a state-run hatchery. Today, their descendents are helping deliver plentiful fish runs back to the waterways of Snohomish County.

One hundred years ago, when Tulalip Indians canoed the Snohomish River toward a fish hatchery operated by the State of Washington, they carried wild salmon for a nascent supplementation program. They also brought with them the origins of today�s forward-thinking resource management in the basin.

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Tulalip Tribes� cooperative salmon enhancement program with the state.

�It’s a significant milestone,� said the Tulalip Tribes� Fisheries and Wildlife Director Danny Simpson. �It shows that we have always been concerned with the future of fish runs, and been willing to work together to protect them.�

TULALIP RESERVATION (March 29, 2002) — Given that two-thirds of the world is water, all life depends on that life-giving…