Ron Shotwell, a Nisqually tribal crabber, picks pots in southern Puget sound.
During the summer of 2012, the Squaxin Island Tribe will work with the South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group, Green Diamond and Simpson to restore salmon passage to Midway Creek.
The Sqauxin Island Tribe and the cities of Lacey, Olympia and Yelm signed an agreement to advance habitat restoration and protection in the Budd/Deschutes watershed.
Evey year the Puyallup Tribe rears more than a million juvenille chinook at the tribe's hatchery. This means a lot of hard work when the adults come back every fall.
The Lummi Nation distributes sockeye salmon to tribal elders and families. The fish was caught during the historic 2010 Fraser River sockeye salmon run and has been in cold storage. Music: Clamantis (M-PeX) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
"Native American leadership in management of Pacific salmon,"Billy Frank Jr.September 4, 2011Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries SocietySeattle, WA
The Stillaguamish Tribe plans to supplement the declining South Fork Stillaguamish population through a hatchery program. Because there are so few adult salmon, the tribe's natural resources department is collecting juvenile salmon to raise in the hatchery to be used as broodstock when they mature. Music: Razorback Sucker (Tom Fahy) / CC BY-SA 3.0
Tribes from all over the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia paddled to La Conner, Wash., for the annual Tribal Canoe Journey. The Swinomish Tribe was the host for 2011, where tribal members celebrated their canoe culture with songs, drums and dancing for a week.
Billy Frank Jr. discusses ongoing habitat loss, the decline of the salmon resource and the threat to tribal treaty rights. August 2, 2011, Nisqually River.
The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's new fish hatchery was completed in Spring 2011. The tribe is spending the summer transferring fish from the old facility to the new one, in advance of the removal of the Elwha Dams this fall.