All Depends on One’s Definition of “Healthier Run”
Fishery co-managers have approved a 10-week recreational season on the Skagit and Sauk Rivers starting Saturday, Feb. 3. The current sports fishing season is six …
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DamNation: Seattle proposes fish passage on its dams
For years, the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and other groups have pushed the city of Seattle to find a way for fish to get past …
NMFS Approval Of Skagit-Sauk Steelhead Plan Drags On
There are enough wild steelhead forecasted to return to the Skagit and Sauk this winter to have opened a five-day-a-week season on February 1st. However, …
Did salmon use the Skagit River before the Seattle dams were built?
Seattle City Light is applying for a new license to operate its Skagit River Hydroelectric Project. But the process has come up against a seemingly …
Do salmon have rights?
Jack Fiander knew he needed to try something different. For months, Fiander, a member of the Yakama Nation and legal counsel for the Sauk-Suiattle Indian …
Plugging the Donut Hole: Mining co. drops rights to watershed
Some good news for the Skagit. The British Columbia government has announced the surrender of mining rights at the headwaters of the Skagit River, after …
No Skagit-Sauk Wild Steelhead Fishery
The WDFW delivers another helping of shit sandwich to PNW steelhead anglers. “The forecast of 3,833 steelhead returning to the Skagit/Sauk in 2022 is now …
A River Reconsidered
The Skagit River runs about 150 miles through what is now British Columbia into northwest Washington, from the Cascade Mountains to Puget Sound. Along the …
Seattle City Light said their dam operations increased salmon runs as numbers declined
While all runs of salmon on the Skagit River experienced declines, Seattle City Light left 20-year-old glowing messages on its website – touting the utility’s …
‘The river was stolen from us’: a tribe’s battle to retake the Skagit River
The Skagit is the last American river outside of Alaska still home to all five species of wild salmon. The Upper Skagit Indian tribe is …