For the past few years, the Nisqually Indian Tribe has seen a drastic increase in juvenile salmon rearing and feeding in the Mashel River. This is a direct result of recent habitat restoration work done up and down the important Nisqually River tributary.
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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.�
Tribal sovereignty and natural resource management pioneer Guy McMinds retires
“Leaders like Guy and Joe DeLaCruz were the right people for the right time,” Ed Johnstone said. “They could see where we needed to go. They had good relations with other tribes and they sought out connections with people who could help. They weren’t shy about telling the federal government what their responsibilities were, how they had failed us, and how they could make it right.”
Seattle Times: Thanks to hatchery change, prices up
The Seattle Times has a story about the Tulalip Tribes change to an earlier returning hatchery chinook broodstock: Spring 2007…