Over the last couple of weeks Squaxin Island Natural Resources have released approximately 1.8 million coho smolt from the Net Pen facility located in Peale Passage. “Our hope is these coho live a healthy life through out their journey through the Puget Sound into the ocean and return back as 8 lbs adults for the [...]
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Squaxin Net Pen Coho Smolt Released
May 28th, 2010 by Joseph Peters · Comments Off
Day House Photo Update May 26th
May 26th, 2010 by Joseph Peters · Comments Off
New Net Pen Day House Construction Underway
May 21st, 2010 by Joseph Peters · Comments Off
Construction of the new day house for the net pens is underway. The first step before building the house was to assemble the new pontoons that we purchased from Ferguson Plastics. Over the next couple of months we will update with pictures of the construction of the day house.
Peale Passage Net Pens Transfer Video
February 25th, 2009 by Joseph Peters · No Comments
Peale Passage Netpens (Squaxin Island Tribe) Big thanks goes out to Emmett O’Connell, South Sound Information Officer for the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission for recording, producing and editing this video fo the Squaxin Island Tribe.
Squaxin Net Pens – Coho Transfer Photos
February 20th, 2009 by Joseph Peters · No Comments
Above is just a snap shot of the 1.5 million coho that will be released in June 2009. On average only 3 % of these released coho will return as adults in Fall of 2010. That is approximately 45,000 adult coho available for harvest by Sport and Commercial fisheries in South Puget Sound. Pictures of [...]
Squaxin Tribe begins Transfer of Juvenile Coho to Net Pens
February 19th, 2009 by Joseph Peters · No Comments
This week the Squaxin Island Tribe Natural Resources (SINR) and Washington State Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) started hauling the first batch of juvenile coho to the South Sound Net Pens (SSNP) located in Peale Passage. SSNP is a co-managed facility by the SINR and WDFW that has released an average of 1.5 million coho smolt [...]
Tribal Fishery Feeds the State of Missouri
December 1st, 2008 by Scott Steltzner · No Comments
Early this October natural resources staff tagged 600 adult coho in Budd, Case and Hammersley Inlets with spaghetti tags. This easily visible tag is inserted just below the dorsal fin. Each tag contains a unique identification number and a phone number to the natural resources department. Tag being inserted into an adult salmon. These fish [...]
PT Leader: Building a better Squaxin Island Tribe barge
February 11th, 2008 by eoconnell · No Comments
The Squaxin Island Tribe is buying a new barge, custom built in Port Townsend: “It’s a beautiful craft,” said resource technician Dave George Krise of the Squaxin Island Tribe as the Travelift approached to hoist the tribe’s new barge from the shipyard to the boat haven. With the boat at the dock, still suspended over [...]
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