Two bills aimed at ratifying a water rights compact for the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes have been stalled in Republican-controlled committees in the Montana Legislature.
For the second straight year, state and tribal fishery managers are joining forces to remove invasive, non-native northern pike from Box Canyon Reservoir on the Pend Oreille River in northeast Washington.
Re: CBB, Dec. 7, 2012, “Kootenai Tribe Gets Approval For Construction Of Facilities For Sturgeon, Burbot Aquaculture Program” https://www.www.www.columbiabasinbulletin.org/424096.aspx
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho to proceed with final design and begin construction on a $16.2 million project to upgrade an existing white sturgeon hatchery at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and build a new hatchery upstream to support both sturgeon and burbot restoration goals.
Montana state Rep. Dan Salomon, R-Ronan, is in a unique position when it comes to understanding the recently proposed water-rights compact for the Flathead Indian Reservation.
The Yakama Nation today celebrated the 16th anniversary of operations at its Cle Elum Supplementation and Research Facility, a central Washington facility designed to rear hatchery fish that the tribes feel are better adapted to survive and reproduce in the wild.
As part of an effort to restore threatened bull trout populations, fishery managers will begin an experimental project later this month to remove brook trout from Oregon’s High Lake in the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness.
The Kalispel Tribe of Indians has signed a 10-year, $39.5 million agreement with federal agencies that focuses on actions to address impacts of Albeni Falls Dam on fish and wildlife in the area of Lake Pend Oreille and the tribe’s reservation along the Pend Oreille River about 55 miles north of Spokane.
In between summertime fishing seasons this year for chinook and sockeye salmon, steelhead and other fish stocks, tribal fishermen could well be setting their sights on American shad, a non-native species that also heads up the Columbia River system each year to spawn.
Leadership from four Columbia River treaty tribes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Indian Affairs gathered on the banks of the Columbia River Wednesday morning to celebrate the completion of the Dallesport Treaty Fishing Access Site.
Inside the National Guard Armory at Okanogan, Wash., Leroy and Mylan Williams teach a small crowd of onlookers the nearly lost art of building fish nets by hand. The father and son are part of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation and are teaching other tribal members how to build and use traditional fishing gear.
Four Columbia River basin tribes’ right to police themselves at congressionally designated treaty fishing access areas was upheld Thursday in a decision released by the state of Washington’s Supreme Court.
With a recent uptick in the number of fall chinook salmon spawners passing over the lower Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam, treaty fishers are expecting a corresponding jump in the catch in reservoirs above the project.
In last week’s story “Feds, States, Tribes Sign Statement Aimed At Strengthening Effort To Reduce Toxins In Columbia River” https://www.www.www.columbiabasinbulletin.org/411973.aspx the listing of the entities that signed the agreement was incorrect.
Leaders from the federal government, tribes, states, and non-profits gathered in Spokane, Wash., last week to sign an “executive statement” they say strengthens their commitment to reduce toxic contaminants in the Columbia River basin.
With a recent $475,000 federal grant, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are ramping up for a long-awaited 2015 acquisition of Kerr Dam in northwest Montana.
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation fishermen continued their investigation into the use of “selective” commercial-type fishing gear with a venture north of the border this week to snare sockeye salmon from the depths of Lake Osoyoos.
Libby Dam releases are being ramped up to prepare for running the Kootenai River at low flows this fall to allow for the start of a long-planned white sturgeon habitat restoration project.
Tribal commercial fishermen will get the most out of their Columbia River mainstem “summer” salmon fishing season with the approval Thursday of a 5 ½-day fishery that will stretch right up until 6 p.m. Saturday, July 30.
-- From Babtist Paul Lumley, Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
The response from Mr. Bryan Irwin to the July 8, 2011. CBB article "Another Tribal Fishery Aims At Summer Chinook While Allowing Sockeye Escapement" is laden with misleading information, demonstrates a lack of understanding about gill nets, unfairly describes how gill nets impact fish, and shows a general animosity for the tribal fishery.
The Kalispel Tribe and federal agencies are proposing a 10-year, $39 million agreement to address the impacts of Albeni Falls Dam on Pend Oreille River fish and wildlife.
Tribal commercial fishermen will focus next week on taking another bite out of their summer chinook salmon harvest allocation while trying to avoid as best they can any additional harvest of sockeye salmon.
Yakama Nation leader Gerald Lewis was selected by officials from the Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce and Warm Springs tribes to lead the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission as its new chairman.
With Bonneville Dam fish counts holding strong, sport and commercial fishers are preparing to shift after June 15 from a “spring” chinook emphasis to targeting what is expected to be the highest “summer” chinook salmon return to the Columbia River basin since at least 1980.
Over 250 tribal leaders, federal fisheries managers, state fisheries managers, scientists, non-tribal fishers and members of the public attended the Future of Our Salmon conference last week, June 1-2.
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