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NWIFC News by Billy Frank Jr Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Winter 2011/12 NWIFCnwifc.org News Inside: ■ Tribes Urge Updated Water Standards ■ Elwha Dam Removal Progresses ■ Protecting Intertidal Species ■ Shellfish Beds Cleaned Up ■ Surveying Threatened Steelhead ■ Tracking Salmon Migration Being Frank Stand Up for Your Food NWIFC News By Billy Frank Jr. Northwest Indian NWIFC Chairman Fisheries Commission 6730 Martin Way E. How much fish and shellfish do Olympia, WA 98516 you eat? (360) 438-1180 For more than 20 years, the state of Washington has based its water NWIFC News is published quarterly. Free sub- quality standards on the idea that scriptions are available. This edition is also on- we eat one small bite a day, or 6.5 line at nwifc.org. Articles in NWIFC News may grams. About the size of a sugar be reprinted. cube. That number is very important to everyone who lives here be- NWIFC Chairman cause it is used to set state stan- Billy Frank Jr. dards for how much pollution can Executive Director be put into our waters legally. The will lead to everything from lost Mike Grayum number the state’s using right now jobs to higher sewer rates at a time isn’t even close to what most of us when our economy is struggling. Information and Education Services eat. The truth is that we’ve all been Division Manager We’ve been working hard for paying the costs of a low con- Tony Meyer the past two decades to encourage sumption rate for many years in Regional Information Officers the state to adopt a more realistic terms of the quality of our water, Debbie Preston, Coast rate that will better protect those food and health. Emmett O’Connell, South Sound waters, the food that comes out Regardless of what number is Tiffany Royal, Hood Canal/ of them, and the health of every- chosen to update the consump- Strait of Juan de Fuca one who lives here. Now it finally tion standard, it’s unlikely to even Kari Neumeyer, North Sound looks like the state department of come close to the amount of fish Ecology is taking steps to revise and shellfish tribes eat every day. the old standards, and that’s en- But revising our state’s fish con- NWIFC Member Tribes: Hoh, Jamestown couraging. sumption standard is not just a S’Klallam, Lower Elwha Klallam, Lummi Nation, Makah, Muckleshoot, Nisqually, Nooksack, Port It’s a sad fact that much of our tribal issue. It’s a public health Gamble S’Klallam, Puyallup, Quileute, Quinault local seafood is contaminated by issue that affects everyone who Indian Nation, Sauk-Suiattle, Skokomish, Squaxin pollution that seems to be every- lives here. That’s why we support Island, Stillaguamish, Suquamish, Swinomish, where in our environment. The a significant increase. Tulalip and Upper Skagit new consumption standard will be We are standing on the edge of aimed at helping reduce levels of a great opportunity and we need Tribal contact information is available under more than 100 pollutants that can to take bold action. Ecology will Member Tribes at nwifc.org. hurt people. Over the long term, be holding public hearings on the Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/nwifc and these poisons can make us sick new standards and you will have on Twitter: @nwifc and even kill us. a chance to participate. Stand up Sure, some people don’t eat lo- for the water! Stand up for your cally harvested seafood at all, but food and your health! Let Ecology those of us who do sure as heck know that you eat fish and shell- eat a lot more than a small bite a fish from Washington waters. day. Even though tribal members Tell them you want to see the new eat a lot more fish and shellfish consumption standard adopted than most folks, many thousands quickly, without major loopholes of non-Indians – especially our for polluters. Asian-American and Pacific Is- For us tribes, western Washing- lander communities – also make ton is our home, and its waters are seafood a large part of their diets. the source of much of our food. On the cover: Upper Skagit tribal member It’s a shame that it’s taken so Our cultures and treaty rights are Larry Peterson harvests coho salmon in the long to revise our state’s ridicu- tied to this place, and we are com- Skagit River. Photo: K. Neumeyer lously low consumption standard, mitted to keeping it a healthy place but the polluters have a strong to live. Fish and shellfish is food. lobby. They’ll tell us we can’t af- There’s no reason it shouldn’t be ford to protect our water, our food available, plentiful and healthy and our health, and that new rules enough for all of us to eat. 2 LUMMI NATION Diet Survey to Protect Tribal Health The Lummi Nation Natural Resources Department is find- ing out just how much seafood the average tribal member eats. Seafood consumption rates are used to determine water quality safety standards, but federal and state agencies rely on national studies. Members of fishing tribes in western K. Neumeyer Washington eat a lot more fish A Lummi family harvests manila clams in Portage Bay last spring. Shellfish, which make up an important part than the average person. of tribal diets, are vulnerable to contamination by water pollution. Although Washington state is considering updating its con- veys do not apply to either the its own standards. Last year, ic substance criteria protect the sumption rate, the current state Lummi people or other Indian natural resources staff mem- health of tribal members. water quality standard is based tribes in the Puget Sound area,” bers began surveying male The study was funded by the on a rate of 6.5 grams of fish said Merle Jefferson, director tribal members with fishing Agency for Toxic Substances a day. Other studies of North- of Lummi Natural Resources. and shellfishing licenses, in- and Disease Registration, a west Indian tribes and Asian “We need to know how much cluding fishermen who harvest division of the Centers for Dis- and Pacific Islanders reported seafood our people eat, so we for ceremonial and subsistence ease Control and Prevention consumption rates ranging can set regulations that reduce purposes. with additional support provid- from 100 to nearly 500 grams the pollution in the waters In addition to guiding Lum- ed by the federal Environmen- of fish per day. where we harvest our food.” mi’s water quality standards, tal Protection Agency. “Estimates for seafood con- The Lummi Nation plans to the results of the diet study will – K. Neumeyer sumption from national sur- use Lummi-specific data to set help ensure that the state’s tox- Surplus Sockeye Gets Families through Winter The Lummi Nation distributed sockeye salmon to tribal members in September for families to can and store for the winter. “The tribe puts fish away as much as possible when we have an abundance, for ceremonies and all the functions that the tribe sponsors,” said Randy Kinley Sr., policy representative for the tribe. “It’s very important to take care of our people’s needs culturally.” The fish was caught during the record 2010 Fraser River sockeye run and had been in cold storage. More than 34 million sockeye returned that summer, the largest run in nearly 100 years, but poor returns are expected for the next few years. “The sockeye season was short this year and we wanted to make sure people have the opportunity K. Neumeyer to put salmon away for the winter,” Kinley said. Volunteers from Lummi Fisheries, Lummi Indian Business Council and Lummi Fish Commission pass out sockeye salmon to tribal members. Watch a video about the giveaway at go.nwifc. org/12u. 3 LOWER ELWHA KLAllAM TRIBE Water Flows, Sediment Moves, Salmon Return as Elwha Dams Come Down Kim Sager-Fradkin, Lower Elwha Klallam The delta of Lake Aldwell is looking more like a river. The partial removal of the Elwha River dam below the lake has drained it significantly, allowing the increased water flow to develop river channels. Lake Aldwell Reservoir Recovers from Constraints of Dam The Lake Aldwell reservoir is starting said Mike McHenry, the tribe’s habitat pro- noticed a small increase of fine sediment to look like a river again. It’s just one of gram manager. “It’s starting to look like a building in the estuaries. the changes to the Elwha River system that river channel. The delta at the south end “The fine sediment plume from the the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe has been of the reservoir is more exposed and sedi- mouth of the river into the strait is much watching with great anticipation since ment is being transported downriver.” more pronounced than it was prior to re- removal of the river’s two fish-blocking In addition, construction crews have moval activities and its configuration var- dams began in September. removed remnants of nearly 100-year-old ies during the course of the day,” said Matt By Nov. 1, the 108-foot-tall Elwha Dam pilings from Lake Aldwell. Also removed Beirne, the tribe’s environmental coordi- had been lowered by 48 feet and the 210- was a log boom that prevented boats from nator. “We haven’t seen significant sedi- foot-tall Glines Canyon dam by 32 feet. going over the dam. The wood was allowed ment deposition in the estuary just yet, but Water from the reservoirs has been spill- to flow downriver with the expectation we have seen elevated turbidity levels from ing over the deconstructed dams, chang- that it will contribute to salmon habitat in the finer sediments.” ing the hydrology of the reservoirs as well the lower river.
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