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Native salmon fishing (10 photos)
seastack
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I stumbled across this fishery a couple of days ago ...
On Hood Canal, members of the Native American Skokomish (“big river people”) tribe
pull a net full of salmon to shore. The Skokomish have fished this area for millenia.
A 1974 federal court ruling, the Boldt Decision, reaffirmed treaty rights established more
than a century before and guaranteed many Washington tribes 50 percent of the harvest
of fish in their usual and accustomed fishing areas.
Hood Canal is a 60-mile-long, fjord-like inlet off greater Puget Sound.
This sequence of photos spans the eight minutes it took them to pull the net to shore.
On Hood Canal, members of the Native American Skokomish (“big river people”) tribe
pull a net full of salmon to shore. The Skokomish have fished this area for millenia.
A 1974 federal court ruling, the Boldt Decision, reaffirmed treaty rights established more
than a century before and guaranteed many Washington tribes 50 percent of the harvest
of fish in their usual and accustomed fishing areas.
Hood Canal is a 60-mile-long, fjord-like inlet off greater Puget Sound.
This sequence of photos spans the eight minutes it took them to pull the net to shore.
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These were taken in the small town Hoodsport further up the canal from the coordinates you mention. It's a beautiful area, especially in summer. Just down the road from your coordinates is the Alderbrook Resort, purchased and renvoated by Bill and Melinda Gates, who also have a summer home next door. So do the Nordstrom's and a few other wealthy Northwest families. The Schaeffers were a big logging company family who sold all their holdings to Simpson Timber Co. in 1950. I think I know the house, it really does look like a castle, all stone? I don't remember a resort next door though. It may be a private residence now.