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As elk co-managers, tribes plan highway overpass project
Tribes who want to see the North Cascades elk population coexist safely with human communities in the Skagit Valley are developing a wildlife overpass project to help the animals cross Highway 20 near...
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Puyallup Tribe rebuilds acclimation ponds to keep salmon safe
As 100,000 silvery coho yearlings were delivered this month to the newly rebuilt Cowskull acclimation pond in a blast of water from a hose, the Puyallup River was so near you could hear its burble....
View ArticleBeing Frank: Warrior up for salmon
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of...
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Jamestown S’Klallam fishermen open waterfront restaurant serving...
Jamestown S’Klallam geoduck divers Jeremy and Jason Holden didn’t realize how significant their new seafood business would be to their tribe and the North Olympic Peninsula until it opened in late...
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Treaty tribes bring critical voices to World Fisheries Congress
People around the world rely heavily on fish as a nutritional resource and economic commodity. Fisheries scientists, policymakers and other key players in these food systems gathered in Seattle in...
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Dredging benefits tribe, rescue vessels
The Makah Tribe is making it easier for a Neah Bay-based response vessel to help distressed or disabled boats in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the...
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50 years since Boldt, tribal access to salmon remains fragile
Marking the 50th anniversary of Judge George Boldt’s Feb. 12, 1974, ruling in U.S. v. Washington, hundreds of members of treaty tribes gathered at the Muckleshoot Events Center to reflect on the times...
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Important, living history: Snapshots from US v. WA 50 event
When Muckleshoot Chairman Jaison Elkins welcomed US v. WA 50 attendees to the tribe’s event hall on February 6, 2024, he shared memories from his childhood of elders reassuring him that they had the...
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What’s killing Hood Canal salmon? Tags offer clues
While the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe knows from recent studies that only half of out-migrating juvenile fish are getting past the Hood Canal Bridge, the next question is—what about returning adults?...
View ArticleIndigenous civil rights documentary FISH WAR to premiere at SIFF
FISH WAR, a documentary film produced by Northwest Treaty Tribes Media and North Forty Productions, will have its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 11,...
View ArticleElwha River’s tribal ceremonial and subsistence fishery for coho salmon to...
PORT ANGELES — The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Olympic National Park (ONP), and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced that a tribal ceremonial and subsistence fishery for coho...
View ArticleBeing Frank: Washington fisheries are managed using a conservation-first...
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of...
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Shrimp test fisheries guide harvest management
Suquamish shellfish staff haul in spot shrimp to sample. The Suquamish Tribe conducted its annual fishery to test spot shrimp egg production in March, concurrent with other tribes and the state running...
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“Powerful film:” Viewers respond to FISH WAR documentary
At the height of the Fish Wars, the civil rights of the region’s first inhabitants were violated with clubbings, tear gas, arrests and confiscation of fishing gear—all in disregard of the treaty rights...
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Tribes look at spawning cycles of sea cucumbers
Gonads are sampled from a sea cucumber. Treaty tribes in western Washington are sampling sea cucumber gonads to better understand mating behaviors and figure out what’s preventing populations from...
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Tribes discuss salmon, Fish Wars with university students
Puyallup tribal member Nancy Shippentower, center, was a child during the Fish Wars. Nancy Shippentower of the Puyallup Tribe remembers the years leading up to the landmark Boldt decision in U.S. v....
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Tribes’ spring ceremonies honor, protect Northwest salmon
Lummi Nation’s ceremonial first salmon rests on a bed of cedar fronds in a canoe Lummi Nation School teacher Michael Baker and senior Thomas Romero built for the event. Each year, many tribes in the...
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Tribes test innovative trap in battle against invasive crab
As invasive European green crab populations have spread in Washington waters, the bays and sloughs around the Tulalip Tribes’ reservation seem to have been sheltered from the invasion so far. But as...
View ArticleBeing Frank: Repealing Climate Commitment Act comes at too high a cost
Being Frank is a column by Chairman Ed Johnstone of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. As a statement from the NWIFC chairman, the column represents the natural resources management concerns of...
View ArticleSharing cedar harvest traditions
During a short hike to Brighton Creek, a child approached Nisqually tribal member Hanford McCloud with a pair of antlers, likely shed by a deer, that he’d found along the trail. One of the tribe’s...
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