Some fine-tuning and a bolstering of supporting information should allow planning to move ahead on a proposed expansion of the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho's white sturgeon hatchery facilities in northern Idaho, according to the Independent Scientific Review Panel's assessment completed Oct. 13.
The notion of harvesting fish from the Columbia River basin with "selective" commercial gear is gaining attention, with central Washington's Colville Tribes among those taking the lead.
The Yakama Nation and conservation groups continue to press legal action to prevent the import of Hawaiian garbage for storage at a Columbia River gorge landfill even though the waste transfer plan has been stalled for now.
The opening late last week of a first-in-recent-memory sport fishery for sockeye salmon in British Columbia's Lake Osoyoos has raised the ire of First Nations groups.
McCoy Oatman, member of the Nez Perce Tribe's Executive Committee and CRITFC commissioner, becomes chair of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. Oatman was appointed to the position by the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee to replace Rebecca Miles and will serve as chair for the next nine months.
Four years after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a fish processing facility at White Salmon, Tribal Fish Company LLC has been formed with two representatives each from four Columbia River treaty fishing tribes.
Montana native Brian Lipscomb is headed home after spending five years at the helm of the Portland-based Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Shea on July 29 issued a temporary restraining order barring the shipment Hawaiian garbage up the Columbia River Gorge to Roosevelt Regional Landfill for at least 30 days.
For a second year, the Colville Confederated Tribes are funding fish production at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Colville Fish Hatchery, a state facility in northeast Washington that was slated for closure under last year's budget cuts.
Two years after appointing two people to serve as advisers for a new inter-tribal corporation, the Umatilla Tribes are still hoping three other Columbia River treaty fishing tribes will get on board.
The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho this week released its framework for deciding how the long-disturbed Kootenai River's basic ecosystem functions can be restored for native fish without disturbing manmade infrastructure that has altered the environment.
Rebecca Miles, a Nez Perce tribal member and official has been chosen by tribal officials to chair the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission in 2009-2010.
The Colville Confederated Tribes have agreed to cover fish production costs at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's Colville Fish Hatchery, a state facility in northeast Washington slated for closure under recent budget cuts.
Genny Hoyle and Kevin James took the first shifts at gently and patiently stirring eggs and milt with feathers, the culmination of an annual, labor-intensive effort to save the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon.
Feedback: The Science Of Supplementation
--- From Bill Bosch, Yakama Nation Fisheries, Yakima-Klickitat Fisheries Project Research Office
Re: June 12 CBB Story "Hood River Study Looks At Reproduction Fitness Of Wild-Born Offspring Of Hatchery Fish"
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Wednesday gave conditional approval to a pair of "accord" research projects that together will claim more than $10.5 million in fish and wildlife funding over the next nine years.
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) led a delegation of West Coast congressional members in sending a letter to key Obama administration officials urging them to restore funding for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund.
An under-performing upriver spring chinook salmon run has exposed a flaw in a 10-year catch sharing agreement that tilts benefits heavily in favor of non-Indian sport fishers, according to four Columbia River basin treaty tribes.
Babtist (Paul) Lumley, a member of the Yakama Indian Nation and 23-year veteran of American Indian policy, is returning to the Columbia Basin after a five-year absence to serve as the executive director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
The public is invited to weigh in next week on budding plans to provide access for salmon to the upper reaches of central Washington's Cle Elum River, a tributary to the Yakima River.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Tuesday recommended that the next steps – ranging from further explorations to actual construction -- be funded for four "accord" fish and wildlife projects.
Longtime Columbia River salmon restoration and tribal treaty fishing rights advocate Jaime Pinkham is set to leave the basin to join Archibald Bush Foundation as vice president in charge of its Native Nation-Building Team.
The Bonneville Power Administration this week gave the go-ahead for a $7 million overhaul of an outdated fish ladder on the Klickitat River in south-central Washington that is expected to help boost populations of salmon returning to the basin.
A study on the overall economic benefits of Washington State's non-treaty commercial and recreational fisheries for 2006 showed the fisheries generating $540 million in personal income.
Central Washington's Colville Tribes have seen early successes in tests of selective fishing gear that they say can increase the viability of wild salmon populations by allowing increased spawner escapement and lessening the straying of hatchery fish on to spawning grounds.
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