by Jeremy FiveCrows | Jan 26, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Despite off-and-on rain and snow since October, Columbia River basin weather patterns are coming back to normal, although it is still a little on the warm, dry side. In general, mountain snow stations show the water contained in Oregon and Washington snowpacks is...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Dec 16, 2014 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
This year has been very busy for CRITFC and the tribes in regards to salmon, lamprey, river health, and treaty fishing. The record numbers of salmon returned to the Columbia River system was another indicator that the efforts to reverse the salmon decline are paying...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Nov 26, 2014 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
This year’s total counts of chinook, sockeye, steelhead and coho at Bonneville Dam set a new record since the dam was built in 1938. New record returns also occurred in the Snake River Basin since Lower Granite Dam was built (fall chinook, coho and sockeye) with...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Nov 26, 2014 | CRITFC News, ED's Message, The Dipnetter
Even before we eat the salmon at the feasts, we drink choosh. Tribal people have known since time immemorial that water is what all life depends on. Where tribal people could once drink pure water straight from the rivers in the region, today we don’t even dare. It is...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Nov 26, 2014 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Recent research from NOAA Fisheries is trying to find out just how many adult salmon are being lost between the mouth of the Columbia River and Bonneville Dam. The number they came up with is quite alarming. The fish loss research, which began in 2010, shows a steady...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Oct 15, 2014 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Coho salmon are returning from a 20-year absence in the Snake River Basin, surging up the Columbia and Snake Rivers by the thousands and supporting fisheries along the way. Coho returns past Lower Granite Dam on the Snake River are nearing 10 times the 10-year average...
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