Tribe feeling impact of marine survival project funding cuts
The Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe is feeling the impact of abrupt funding cuts from the state for its marine survival data collection program. “It’s an area Port Gamble S’Klallam has put a lot of...
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Salmon in Dungeness River get help swimming upstream
Sometimes salmon need a little boost to get to their spawning grounds. With low water levels becoming more common in the Dungeness River, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe has been monitoring flow...
View ArticleQuinault trapping invasive crab data
Quinault Indian Nation staff strapped on mud boots and strode into the tideflats near Ocean Shores late this summer to survey invasive European green crab. The tribe has partnered with Washington Sea...
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Partnership experiments with cockle outplanting in geoduck tubes
Cockle seed for the Suquamish Tribe’s shellfish program spent a bougie spring in a cozy hatchery environment—with proper water temperature, regular feedings, no predators—before being thrown into the...
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Funding in peril for marine survival research
The Tulalip Tribes and partners secured funding to continue monitoring juvenile salmon marine survival through 2027, but the future of the critical research is uncertain. For the past six summers,...
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Die-off interrupts chinook spawning in South Fork Nooksack
Despite ongoing efforts to provide cold-water shelter at Lummi Nation’s Skookum Creek Fish Hatchery and to rebuild habitat throughout the Nooksack River watershed, many chinook are dying in the South...
View ArticleStillaguamish Tribe uses drone to protect elk calves
The Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians used a drone equipped with a high-resolution thermal imaging camera to identify and protect elk calves from mowing activities on a Whatcom County property this...
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Restoration of Olympia oysters gains traction
More than a decade of surveys, monitoring, and trial and error has taught the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and Clallam County Marine Resources Committee (CCMRC) many lessons on Olympia oyster restoration....
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DNA project assesses elk population health
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and partners at Panthera and five other Olympic Peninsula tribes are trying to understand whether Interstate 5 is preventing Roosevelt elk on the peninsula from...
View ArticleBeing Frank: Amending MMPA is essential to protect salmon from pinniped...
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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Tribe tests water temperature limits for chum salmon
Water temperature is critical to salmon. It affects their ability to grow, metabolize food and fight off diseases. If water temperature isn’t cool enough during their life span, the stability of an...
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Northern pike a potential threat in Lake Washington
A voracious, invasive fish that preys on salmon has seen its numbers grow in Lake Washington. Muckleshoot Indian Tribe staff and fishers caught 85 northern pike during a four-week fishery in May and...
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Eelgrass transplant project wraps up in Port Angeles
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), has planted more than 43,000 eelgrass plants in Port Angeles Harbor over the past decade, stemming from what...
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Puyallup Tribe honors the first fish — and opens a new longhouse
Members of The Puyallup Tribe of Indians gathered this spring to continue a tradition and celebrate a milestone. Tribal members started the day on the Tacoma waterfront by honoring the first salmon of...
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Nooksack, Lummi key partners in salmon education program
Students wait while staff of Lummi Nation’s stock assessment program pull a beach seine to catch marine life. North Sound tribal members joined groups of Bellingham fourth graders this spring as they...
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Dungeness crab molting period may be shifting
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is gathering new information about Dungeness crab that will help manage the population. “Our goal is specifically to re-evaluate the peak molting period of Dungeness crab...
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Ongoing monitoring shows success of estuary restoration
Where the Stillaguamish River melds with Port Susan Bay, monitoring continues to show that estuary restoration is working, providing refuge and food sources for juvenile salmon migrating from area...
View ArticleBeing Frank: Ocean fisheries are not a threat to salmon recovery
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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Baker River sockeye program a model for fish passage
Juvenile sockeye slide down a transport chute after being counted. The chute delivers them to a holding tank for later transport by trucks, called water taxis, downstream to the Skagit River. In the...
View ArticleSquaxin Island Tribe, partners team for Olympia oyster restoration
A partnership between the Squaxin Island Tribe and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has allowed one of the tribe’s first foods to begin to flourish. The tribe and environmental nonprofit teamed up three...
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