Larger Returns Don’t Equal Salmon Recovery
August 7, 2002 Here we go again. A second year of big returns of hatchery chinook returning to the Columbia River – coupled with more good returns of coho to Puget Sound – and some folks already are...
View ArticleNew Hatchery Tagging Trailer Helps Salmon
OLYMPIA (May 2, 2005) – A new automatic clipping and tagging trailer is assisting treaty tribes in western Washington in more efficiently marking and identifying hatchery salmon. “Being able to tell...
View ArticleBaker Dam fish passages could boost sockeye runs
The Skagit Valley Herald has an article about PSE’s Baker River project: The utility hopes the new $40 million fish passage system and $112 million total in other improvements in the works will...
View ArticleKPLU on South Sound coho
KPLU had a pretty good story on the strange disappearance of juvenile coho in deep South Sound.…
View ArticlePuyallup Herald on Clarks Creek hatchery
The Puyallup Herald ran a pretty good story on the Clarks Creek hatchery: That’s where fish hatcheries like Clark’s Creek Hatchery, owned by the Puyallup Tribe, have made a difference. In essence, fish...
View ArticleNorth Kitsap Herald: Creek Clean Up for Salmon, Trout
The North Kitsap Herald reported on a community effort to clean up a Poulsbo stream that is a home for coho, but was severely damaged by last fall’s storms, as well as from years of development in the...
View ArticleDecades old landslide still harming Deschutes River coho
OLYMPIA (August 5, 2008) – A nearly 20 year old landslide is still hurting salmon according to a recently completed analysis of sediment in the Deschutes River by the Squaxin Island Tribe. “The...
View ArticlePuyallup Tribe “scouring for survivors” after floods
A reporter from the Puyallup Herald tagged along with some researchers from the Puyallup Tribe as they conducted their first salmon surveys after the damaging winter floods: One of the major problems...
View ArticleSquaxin Island Tribe transfers over 1 million coho to netpens
From the Squaxin Island Tribe’s natural resources blog: This week the Squaxin Island Tribe Natural Resources (SINR) and Washington State Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) started hauling the first batch of...
View ArticleAdventures in Coho Stream Surveying
[display_podcast] Jon Oleyar likens his stream surveying to the television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” But rather than seeking evidence to solve a crime, the Suquamish Tribe fisheries...
View ArticlePuyallup Tribe urges state to save Voights Creek hatchery
From the Seattle Times: Buried deep within the 298 pages of the proposed Senate operating budget for 2009-11 is the possible closure of the Voights Creek Hatchery on the Puyallup River watershed. The...
View ArticleFuture of Voights Creek unclear in state budget
From Joe Turner at the News Tribune: Reader points out to me that the no fish hatcheries will close is misleading too. The budget says (on Page 397): “During the 2007-09 biennium, the department shall...
View ArticleSquaxin Island Tribe Tracking Coho in Sherwood Creek
ALLYN – A pair of smolt traps is helping the Squaxin Island Tribe get a better picture of natural salmon production in the Sherwood Creek watershed. “The Sherwood watershed is one of the most...
View ArticleTrust Is The Key To Better Fisheries Management
Cooperative natural resources co-management at its best was displayed during this year’s North of Falcon process for setting Indian and non-Indian salmon fishing seasons in western Washington. The...
View ArticleKitsap Sun: Rain Helping Coho and Chum Move Upstream
The Kitsap Sun spoke with the Suquamish Tribe’s fisheries biologist Jon Oleyar about the salmon returning to Chico Creek in Central Kitsap this fall: “The timing of these rains is just about perfect,”...
View ArticleLummi Nation aids study of bacterial disease in hatchery coho
The Lummi Nation’s Skookum Creek Hatchery is working with the University of Idaho’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to study a bacterial disease that attacks coho salmon. Flavobacterium...
View ArticleSkokomish Tribe Commemorates New Fish Passage at Lake Cushman
The Skokomish Tribe participated in a groundbreaking ceremony at Lake Kokanee this spring to celebrate the beginning of the construction of a new upstream fish passage facility and a new dam powerhouse...
View ArticleKitsap Sun: Long-awaited coho found in Agate Pass
The Kitsap Sun’s fishing columnist, Dave Shorett, posted an article about the coho salmon that are coming through Agate Pass this fall. Giving props to the Suquamish Tribe’s net pen program that...
View ArticleKitsap Sun: Suquamish Tribe discusses this fall’s returning salmon
In an article discussing the annual return of killer whales to Puget Sound, the Kitsap Sun also talked with the Suquamish Tribe about salmon returning to the Kitsap Peninsula, and what folks could...
View ArticleTulalip Tribes release record number of coho
The Tulalip Tribes’ Bernie Kai-Kai Gobin Salmon Hatchery released a record number of coho salmon this year, thanks to rearing improvements that led to a high survival rate. In June, tribal hatchery...
View ArticleGrovers Creek Coho Used for Stormwater Runoff Study
Using fish from the Suquamish Tribe’s Grovers Creek hatchery, federal agencies and their partners are determining just how lethal polluted urban highway runoff is to salmon. Staff from the U.S. Fish...
View ArticleStillaguamish Tribe sponsors salmon habitat restoration on Cherokee Creek
The Stillaguamish Tribe recently partnered with the state Department of Natural Resources Family Forest Fish Passage Program to restore access to Cherokee Creek, near Darrington. Cherokee Creek...
View ArticleVideo: Lummi Nation releases a million coho yearlings
Every year, the Lummi Nation releases a million coho yearlings from its Lummi Bay Hatchery in two batches of 500,000 fish. The fish are spawned at the Lummi Bay Hatchery and reared at the state’s...
View ArticleMarine Survival Project Looks at Salmon Poisoning Disease
Steelhead out-migrating from North Sound rivers appear to have better marine survival than steelhead smolts from South Sound, and researchers are studying salmon poisoning disease as a potential cause....
View ArticleJamestown S’Klallam reconnects creek to strait to save fish
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is starting to see the effects of this year’s predicted low water flow in the Dungeness River Valley much sooner than anticipated. Tribal natural resources staff...
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