by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 27, 2015 | CRITFC News, ED's Message, The Dipnetter
C. McKinley with catch on Big Island. Circa 1956. Photo courtesy the Matheny Collection. CRITFC Executive Director Paul Lumley’s Message Elders who fished at Celilo Falls talk about having small metal cups on a string that they would lower into the river to get a...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 27, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Among the many duties of Fish and Wildlife Committee Members and CRITFC Commissioners are delegations where they are sent to participate in the work of the Pacific Salmon Commission and Pacific Fishery Management Council. The Pacific Salmon Commission deals with...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 27, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Recent research by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission found that high levels of pesticides, flame retardants, and mercury in Pacific lamprey may be contributing to their overall decline in the Columbia River Basin. The...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 27, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Both Washington and Idaho are moving forward to update their surface water quality standards. These standards determine the “safe” level of pollution that industry and municipal wastewater treatment plants are allowed to discharge into streams and rivers of the...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Apr 27, 2015 | CRITFC News, The Dipnetter
Tribal leaders met with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy in the CRITFC commission chambers in Portland on April 15. Administrator McCarthy is President Obama’s chief environmental advocate. At the meeting, tribal leaders stressed their...
by Jeremy FiveCrows | Mar 31, 2015 | The Dipnetter
by Laura Gephart, critfc watershed projects coordinator Willy Dick Creek, a tributary of Toppenish Creek, has four miles of available steelhead spawning habitat. The creek only produced an average of four ESA Middle Columbia River steelhead redds per year between 2006...
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