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Table of Contents
Introduction, Core Program.............................................1 Year in Review...................................................................2Salmon Management.....................................................3
Harvest Management...........................................................
3
Hatchery Management.........................................................
4
Habitat Management............................................................
5
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Regional Cooperation..........................................................6
Puget Sound Partnership.....................................................
6
Ocean Ecosystem Initiative..................................................
7
Coordinated Tribal Water Resources..................................
8
Timber/Fish/Wildlife.........................................................
9Wildlife Management.....................................................10Shellfish Management...........................................11NWIFC Activities...........................................................12
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Map:
Ron McFarlane.
On the cover: Greg Lehman, SquaxinIsland Tribe, pauses from drumming during the 2009 TribalCanoe Journey: Paddle to Suquamish. Photo:
Tony Meyer
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Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Annual Report 2010
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e are the treaty Indian tribes in westernWashington. We are salmon people.We have lived here for thousands of years.We depend on the natural resources of the
Pacic Northwest to sustain our way of life.
For more than 150 years, we have fought countless battles to protect the salmon and
the shing rights that we reserved in treaties
with the United States. We are natural re-sources co-managers with the state of Wash-ington and leaders in salmon recovery. For us,
the ght to save the salmon continues where
we live – every day in every watershed.Salmon in western Washington continueto disappear despite massive harvest reduc-tions and an overhaul of hatchery practices.Salmon are at a tipping point because neither hatcheries nor harvest restrictions can com-pensate for the ongoing destruction of salmonspawning and rearing habitat.We have one goal and one standard for salmon recovery: Return all wild salmon pop-ulations to sustainable levels that can againsupport harvest. We are not interested inpreserving salmon runs as museum pieces.Western Washington’s ecosystem is under constant attack by threats such as population growth, water withdrawals and stormwater runoff. We know that by working together,these challenges can be met. We believe incooperation and seek consensus-based solu-tions. We are guided by the belief that wemust act in the best interests of generationsto come.Because of our treaty rights, and becauseall natural resources are connected, the treaty Indian tribes in western Washington areengaged in every aspect of natural resourcesmanagement. This report outlines tribal natural resources management activities
assisted by the Northwest Indian Fisheries
Commission for Fiscal Year 2009. Moreinformation is available at
nwifc.org
, including links to Web sites of member tribes.
– Billy Frank Jr., NWIFC chairman
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nTroduCTion
Tribal Natural Resources Management Core Program
Fish, Shellsh and Wildlife Harvest
ManagementHarvest Monitoring/Data CollectionPopulation Monitoring and ResearchHabitat Protection and Restoration
Policy Development andIntergovernmental RelationsTimber/Fish/WildlifeForests & Fish ReportHatchery ReformEndangeredSpecies ActMass MarkingCoordinated TribalWater Resources
Pacic Salmon Treaty
Other State and LocalCollaborative ProgramsWatershed RecoveryPlanningPuget SoundPartnershipOcean EcosystemInitiative
Fisherman and Vessel Identication
Natural Resources EnforcementSalmon Recovery PlanningWater Resource Protection andAssessmentForest Land Management Administrative Support
A male and female coho hover over a redd in TaftCreek, a tributary to the Hoh River.
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