Situation 'Dire': Low Coho Salmon Returns Close Quinault Fisheries

ICTMN Staff
10/29/15
Low returns of wild coho salmon are prompting the Quinault Indian Nation to close all its fisheries in Grays Harbor and Queets River and to declare an economic disaster because of ...

Treaty Tribes in Washington Hail EPA’s Proposed Fish Consumption Rate and Water Quality Rules

Terri Hansen
9/25/15
It has been 20 years since Oregon revised its fish consumption rate (FCR) from 6.5 to 17.5 grams per day (gpd) in 1994, and then to 175 grams per day in 2011 to reflect what Native...

Indian Fishing and Wild Rice Harvesting, in Context

Michael McNally
9/10/15

This column was originally published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune....

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Swordfish Skewers, Kills Fisherman After Broadbill Jabs His Chest

ICTMN Staff
6/1/15
A fisherman in Hawaii was killed over the weekend after a 3-foot, broadbill swordfish punctured his chest as he tried to spear it...

Video: Spawning Herring Support Ecosystems by Nourishing Millions

ICTMN Staff
3/9/15
First Nations are fighting hard to prevent the reopening of herring roe fisheries to large-scale commercial harvesting. Two succeeded and one lost its court bid...

Quinault Nation Reopens Lake to Limited Non-Tribal Use

ICTMN Staff
4/16/14
The Quinault Indian Nation will reopen Lake Quinault for limited non-tribal use after nearly a year of closure due to concerns about pollution, invasive species and habitat degrada...

Crow & Lummi, Dirty Coal & Clean Fishing

Winona LaDuke
1/15/14
“The tide is out and the table is set…” Justin Finklebonner gestures to the straits on the edge of the Lummi reservation...

Mystery of the Shy Sardines: Empty Nets in BC Knock Out $32 Million Industry

ICTMN Staff
10/26/13
The collapse of a $32 million commercial fishery off the coast of British Columbia has left a good 25 First Nations and other fishers without an annual sardine catch—and there is n...

Feds Join Penobscot Suit Against State of Maine on Fishing Rights

Gale Courey Toensing
8/26/13
In an uncommon act of legal solidarity with an Indian tribe, the federal government has joined the Penobscot Indian Nation in support of its federal lawsuit against the State of Ma...

Huge Rockfish Not 200 Years Old, but Still Ugly. And Dead.

ICTMN Staff
7/12/13
The rockfish caught by a Seattle insurance adjuster to great fanfare last month was not a record-breaking 200-year-old as some first thought, but a middle-aged guy in the prime of ...

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