Puget Sound has crabs.

An invasive species of European green crabs, “one of the world’s most harmful marine species,” has been detected in the Salish Sea. They “damage bed sediments, leading to the loss of eelgrass, an essential habitat for Dungeness crab and Pacific salmon.”

The Tulalip Tribes reported “detection of a green crab in the southern Whidbey Basin at Mission Beach” earlier this year.

Get outta here, crabbies!

#SalishSea #PugetSound #WhidbeyIsland #Swinomish #Tulalip #Washington #Crab #Crabs #Crabbing #Invasive #Invasivespecies #Dungeness #Salmon #Eelgrass

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/invasive-european-green-crabs-discovered-in-was-skagit-bay/

To learn about how to identify European green crabs and to volunteer with Molt Search, visit https://wsg.washington.edu/crabteam/moltsearch/

US-Bahngesellschaft muss indigenem Stamm Millionen zahlen

#USA #Bahngesellschaft #Millionenzahlung #Gütertransport #Swinomish

https://bahnblogstelle.com/217743/us-bahngesellschaft-muss-indigenem-stamm-millionen-zahlen/

"Tribes 101: About the Native nations that share geography with Washington state"

Great article in the Salish Current explaining tribal sovereignty in #WashingtonState and the 50th anniversary of the Boldt Decision that upheld native treaty rights.

https://salish-current.org/2024/02/05/tribes-101-about-the-native-nations-that-share-geography-with-washington-state/

#Washington #CoastSalish #sovereignty #Lummi #Nooksack #Skagit #Swinomish #Samish #BellinghamWA

I know it’s hard to make local politics exciting, but this article about #Skagit river tidegate & fish habitat policy is trying to pit #Swinomish, Seattle City Light & National Marine Fisheries Service against other stakeholder groups without seeming to speak to half of them. Which is ironic for a caomplaint that amounts to “folks aren’t talking to each other.”

https://www.postalley.org/2023/12/01/battle-for-the-skagit-seattle-city-light-and-a-river-to-fight-over/

#salishSea

Alaska participates in Indigenous aquaculture gathering
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Participants at the 2023 Salish Summit passed rocks to the intertidal area to extend a rock wall structure that is part of a larger clam garden. Photo by Karen Grosskreutz, Alaska Sea Grant State Fellow.

In June, members of the Indigenous Aquaculture...
https://alaska-native-news.com/alaska-participates-in-indigenous-aquaculture-gathering/69318/
#Alaska #aquaculture #seagrant #summit #swinomish #washington

This is gorgeous! 🤩​

"Created by #MatikaWilbur (of the #Swinomish & #Tulalip #Tribes), #Project562 is a #documentary multi-year national #photography project dedicated to photographing 562+ federally recognized Tribes, urban #Native communities, Tribes fighting for federal recognition & #Indigenous role models in what is currently-known-as the US, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery & oral histories that accurately portrays contemporary #NativeAmericans"

https://www.project562.com/11397500-gallery

I live in #BellinghamWA where the local state college, Western Washington University, still holds 89 sets of #Indigenous people’s remains. @mitty of the local #Bellingham Herald dug deeper on this story broken by @ProPublica. Go Vikings! #WWU #repatriation #Whatcom #Skagit #Lummi #Nooksack #Swinomish

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article271077067.html