Fisheries co-managers drafting joint hatchery policy
For decades, treaty tribes have operated their own hatchery programs to help sustain the region’s salmon and steelhead populations. Tribes…
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‘Great success’: Baker River sockeye reach record number
A record number of Baker River sockeye are making their way upriver this year. The fisheries co-managers—consisting of the Upper…
Tribe’s steelhead monitoring could inform Skagit River fisheries
Following a pandemic-necessitated break in annual data collection, the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe this year resumed a test fishery for…
At tribes’ urging, fish passage to be developed at Skagit River dams
After several years resisting the requests of some treaty tribes and government agencies, Seattle City Light has committed to adding…
New hatchery program aims to boost Skagit River chum
Water sloshed from the back of a truck as it made its way from the confluence of Sutter Creek and…
Upper Skagit tribe urges fish passage at Seattle dams
As deadlines approach in the relicensing process for Seattle’s Skagit River Hydroelectric Project, the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe awaits insight…
Upper Skagit Tribe Spruces Up Weyerhaeuser Land
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe partnered with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to improve fish habitat on Weyerhaeuser land along Finney…
Upper Skagit’s Sustainable Forestry Turns Maples to Guitars
Two maple trees harvested from Upper Skagit Tribe timberlands have a musical future ahead of them. The trees were sold…
Upper Skagit tracks sockeye’s preferred prey
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe is sampling zooplankton in Baker Lake and Lake Shannon to track the availability of food…