Salmon Culvert Case Will Impact All West Coast Tribes, as US Supreme Court Hears Washington Appeal
SEFOODNEWS.COM [EarthFix] by Eilis O'Neill - April 4, 2018
Brian Cladoosby and his fellow fishermen stood on the dock of a channel that empties into Puget Sound. They talked about getting their boats ready in time for summer salmon runs.
Cladoosby is the chairman of the Swinomish Tribe. He said those summer salmon runs aren’t what they used to be.
“A lot of the fishermen — Indian and non-Indian — are stuck on the banks now,” he said.
That has to do with a whole host of problems: climate change, hydroelectric dams, overfishing, pollution — and culverts. Those are the pipes that carry streams under roads. If they’re designed poorly, they can keep salmon from swimming upstream to ...
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