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Tag: Upper Skagit

Treaty steelhead fishery provides winter harvest opportunity

Treaty steelhead fishery provides winter harvest opportunity

February 3, 2025February 6, 2025

Winter steelhead returning to the Skagit River watershed to spawn this year will support tribal treaty fishing opportunities for the…

Tribes discuss salmon, Fish Wars with university students

Tribes discuss salmon, Fish Wars with university students

June 10, 2024June 5, 2024

Nancy Shippentower of the Puyallup Tribe remembers the years leading up to the landmark Boldt decision in U.S. v. Washington…

As elk co-managers, tribes plan highway overpass project

As elk co-managers, tribes plan highway overpass project

February 21, 2024March 27, 2024

Tribes who want to see the North Cascades elk population coexist safely with human communities in the Skagit Valley are…

Fisheries co-managers drafting joint hatchery policy

Fisheries co-managers drafting joint hatchery policy

September 26, 2023March 27, 2024

For decades, treaty tribes have operated their own hatchery programs to help sustain the region’s salmon and steelhead populations. Tribes…

‘Great success’: Baker River sockeye reach record number

‘Great success’: Baker River sockeye reach record number

September 12, 2023March 27, 2024

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

Tribe’s steelhead monitoring could inform Skagit River fisheries

May 30, 2023March 27, 2024

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

At tribes’ urging, fish passage to be developed at Skagit River dams

May 18, 2023March 27, 2024

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

New hatchery program aims to boost Skagit River chum

December 8, 2022March 27, 2024

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

Upper Skagit tribe urges fish passage at Seattle dams

October 28, 2022March 27, 2024

As deadlines approach in the relicensing process for Seattle’s Skagit River Hydroelectric Project, the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe awaits insight…

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