Ocean Conditions Looking Bleak for Salmon
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Ocean conditions looking bleak for salmon By Quileute Natural Resources and Quileute Natural Resources Inside This Committee Issue: To say that the last two years of fall fishing in • MTHG Updates the river have been trou- • Community bled would be an under- Christmas Dinner statement. Strange weath- er, low flow, and the infa- • Cherish Our mous “Blob” have caused Children Quillayute salmon returns • Honoring Veterans to be difficult to predict and harder to rely on. • Jay Squawks More problems • Gift Giving This September the Program This chart shows the amount of Wild Fall Coho returning to the Quillayute River over Northwest Fisheries Sci- the past 15 years, alongside the current projection for 2017. You can see that the past • In Loving Memory ence Center (NWFSC) re- two years have come in well below the 15-year average. It is possible to have a strong leased the results of their • QNR Notices hatchery run and a weak wild run. That’s why we have crews sampling the catch so that annual survey. For the past we can estimate run sizes. • Antonellos Earns 20 years this survey tries PhD to gain insight into how healthy the ocean is for that for the next one to grounds to help keep the What can we do? • Elders Meeting salmon. This is partly three years, salmon runs in runs healthy. If escapement Quileute Natural • Senior Center based on how many juve- the Pacific Northwest could is not met then sustainabil- Resources Committee be much smaller than aver- Updates nile salmon they can find at ity becomes very difficult, (QNRC) and the depart- sea. This year the results age. There is also the possi- especially if ocean condi- ment of Quileute Natural • Social Security for both Coho and Chinook bility of runs becoming tions remain hostile to Resources (QNR) are com- Disability Benefits were among the lowest in harder to predict, making it young fish. The fewer fish mitted to preserving these much more difficult to pro- spawning typically means • September/ 20 years. Based on past stocks and providing future data, this is not a good sign vide fishing opportunity there are fewer fish return- harvest. Since last year, we October while trying to meet es- ing. Our ability to ensure Happenings for Washington Coho and have developed new tools Chinook. capement. Escapement is fishing opportunity for fu- that are helping give deci- • December the minimum number of ture generations depends What does this mean? sion makers more infor- Birthdays salmon that is needed to on our ability to set and mation mid-season to un- The NWFSC warns return to the spawning meet escapement goals. derstand how healthy a run is based on catch. More long-term solutions will have to come from new sci- ence, community engage- ment, an ability to adapt to THE DEADLINE a changing environment, FOR ALL and patience. Climate SUBMISSIONS TO change affects us all in a lot BE CONSIDERED of ways, including our fish- FOR PRINT IN THE eries. Moving forward is TALKING RAVEN IS THE 3RD FRIDAY going to require difficult OF EVERY conversations as warm wa- MONTH. ter in our ocean and streams may become the new normal. If you would like more information or have questions, please call one Photos that are of the numbers below, or uncredited belong to visit QNR during business Bayak The Talking hours: Raven. Image from: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/clim/sst.anom.anim.html shows the Joshua Baine Etherton scale of anomalies, or irregularities, of warm water off the coast of the PNW early this (Harvest Management Biol- September. Yellow, orange and red are waters that are warmer than the 29-year aver- ogist): 360-374-6074 age. Blue are colder than average. Looking beyond the Pacific Northwest, you can see that there are lots of anomalies all over the world, especially in the Northern Hemi- QNR Main Office: 360-374- sphere. This is linked to climate change and is damaging for lots of ocean life, not just 2248 salmon. Page 2 The Talking Raven A Note from the Editor Dear Talking Raven Readers, The distribution of the October and November issues was interrupted due to the devastating and unexpected loss my family recently experienced. Thank you all for your support, patience, and understanding during this difficult time. —Emily Foster Move to Higher Ground Updates: Quileute Tribal School Moving Forward! By Susan Devine cess among all other BIE sup- By now, you’ve seen ported schools. The Quileute Important Dates the progress at the future Tribe elected to perform the Tribal School site, as the 25- planning phase themselves, • December 13: 9 a.m. — 2 p.m. at West Wing acre area is logged in prepara- and completed that process in Open Design Team Work Session and Student Lunch tion for future construction of early August 2017, which and Learn a new 60,000 square foot K-12 placed them as the second • January 9: 6 p.m. — 8 p.m. at Akalat school on Higher Ground. This school complete and ready to Community Dinner and School Project Update activity is the latest step in a move forward to design and • January 10: 9 a.m. — 2 p.m. at West Wing process that began in August construction. Open Design Team Work Session and Student Lunch of 2015, when the Tribe ap- “The Tribe elected to plied for a No Child Left Be- pursue a design and construc- and Learn hind school replacement tion process where the Tribe, grant. School, and Community devel- by the BIA, but we do have The following day, Jan- As Dan Galvan, Divi- op the requirements and con- several opportunities for your uary 10, we will have another sion Chief, Division of Facili- ceptual layout of the future input. open design session in the ties Management and Con- school and then Indian Affairs On December 13, the West Wing, from 9 a.m. to 2 struction, Office of Facilities, will advertise this nationally school design team p.m. There will also be a stu- Property & Safety Manage- and manage the final design (architects, engineers, and dent lunch and learn during ment has stated: and construction with contin- planners) will be working in the noon hour. The communi- "Quileute Tribal School ued involvement from the an open session in the West ty is welcome to drop in, see is one of ten school locations Tribe, School, and Community." Wing, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. design options, and provide selected for a complete campus Although the site is You are welcome and encour- input to the team. replacement as part of the In- quickly being cleared, there is aged to drop in ANY TIME The December and Jan- dian Affairs School Replace- still much to do, and many during those hours. We will uary meetings are critical for ment Construction program. ways you and your student also have a special lunch ses- hearing from you! We have to As part of that process the can be involved in the sche- sion with the students, where deliver our first items to the school and Tribe participated matic design process. We are they can hear and see the BIA by January 22 – after that in a competitive selection pro- working under a very tight school design progress and date, it will be difficult to design schedule as required provide their own input. change the design direction, On January 9, we are and the Tribe and School hosting a Community dinner Board will need to commit to a and project update, from 6 specific approach for the p.m. – 8 p.m. in the Akalat. The school. design team will give an up- PLEASE feel free to date, show progress to date, contact Susan Devine, MTHG and answer questions from Project Manager, at su- the Community. We hope to [email protected] see students, parents, elders, or 360-280-6155, if you have staff, and all interested com- any questions or concerns! munity members at the meal and presentation! Volume 12, Issue 10 Page 3 B1q65yam The Talking Raven A monthly publication of the Quileute Tribal Council Edited By Emily Foster Phone: (360) 374-7760 Mailing Address: The Talking Raven PO Box 279 La Push, WA 98350 Email: Quileute Tribal Council Tony Foster Chairman Naomi Jacobson Vice Chair Stephanie Calderon Secretary Doug Woodruff Treasurer James Jackson Member at Large QTC Contact Information Mailing Address: Quileute Tribal Council PO Box 279 La Push, WA 98350 Phone: (360) 374-6163 Gerald Smith General Manager Page 4 The Talking Raven Volume 12, Issue 10 Page 5 Beverly Loudon Nola Woodruff Veterans received gifts and took a group photo at the Quileute Veterans Day Dinner Carl Moore Roger Jackson Photos By Bonita Cleveland Page 6 The Talking Raven Hiba’ Kwashkwash [HAY-buh quash-quash]: The Jay Squawks End Map at the Joyce Grange but Sylvia Kolojonen’s acting Rummage Sale. She told me, spoke more clearly than words.” “When I took the museum job I Those performances clearly had brought in the map and hoped to an effect on Esko. He grew up meet someone who might tell with a sense of the skill and en- me more about this Esko joyment of performance, and Rentola. He fascinated me. I that certainly affected his gradually added to my little preaching style later. ‘yard sale collection’ of his art Esko spoke little English and hoped someone would see it when he entered first grade. But who knew something. I hit the he could draw! He sketched and jackpot when Rentola’s son Da- drew through grade school and vid and his wife Liz came in.” high school.