ARLINGTON – About 1,800 acres of shellfish beds in Port Susan will be reopened to tribal harvest as of April 2, after years of work by the Stillaguamish Tribe.

“This is a great accomplishment,” said Shawn Yanity, fisheries manager for the Stillaguamish Tribe. “Last year, we had a First Salmon Ceremony for the first time in as long as anyone can remember. The opening of Port…

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The Squaxin Island Tribe invited visitors out to see the processing the remains of a dead Bryde’s whale last week. Both King 5 and the Seattle Times were on hand.

From the Seattle Times:

Here on this inlet in far South Sound, a visitor recently arrived from distant waters, and the Squaxin Island tribe did what their ancestors

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The new “Comprehensive Tribal Natural Resources Management” report is now available for download. This report covers tribal natural resources activities during the last year.

Here is a selection from the introduction by chairman Billy Frank, Jr.:

We are the treaty Indian tribes in western Washington. We are salmon people. We have lived here for thousands of years. We depend on the natural resources of the Pacific

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