Treaty Rights At Risk: Ongoing Habitat Loss, the Decline of the Salmon Resource, and Recommendations for Change
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. 2011. Treaty Rights At Risk: Ongoing Habitat Loss, the Decline of the Salmon Resource, and Recommendations for Change. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Olympia, WA
This paper examines how the rights of western Washington treaty tribes to harvest treaty fish and shellfish, and the federal government's salmon and orca protection efforts, are at grave risk. This is being caused by a lack of coordinated federal leadership, a failure to exercise authorities and the disparate application of salmon conservation measures. The U.S. government must step up and provide the leadership needed to resolve these issues if salmon are to be successfully recovered and protected.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
- Date of Issue
- 2011-07-14
- Publisher
- Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
- Units
- OLYM
- Keywords
- Habitat Loss, ORCA, salmon harvest, treaty rights