salmonid

Hood Canal summer-run chum, among 28 salmonids listed under the federal Endangered Species Act, has made an extraordinary comeback thanks to a coordinated restoration strategy between tribes, the federal government and local agencies.

In the Skagit, one of the principal harms to listed salmonids is the high stream temperatures that violate water quality standards deemed necessary for salmon survival, wrote Janette Brimmer, a senior attorney for Earthjustice.

They fished abundant pike and salmonids from the Amnya River and hunted migrating elk and reindeer with bone and stonetipped spears.

They sequenced about 52 million fragments of DNA in total, about half of which were for the four salmonid species of interest.

For years, Port Gamble S’Klallam didn’t have the money to hire specialists to study what was affecting salmonid species, said Jeromy Sullivan, chair of the tribe.