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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1976)
AUGUST 20, 1976 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON .PAGE f (LEFT) B.I.A. OFFICER J.M. Young and Yakima Game War den Tahkeal on watch at Cooks Landing, Wash. Photos by Olney Patt, Jr. (RIGHT) A VANCOUVER, WASH., fish buyer weighs the day’s catch. He paid $1.65 per pound for chinook salmon and $1.35 for steelhead. Treaty Rights Upheld Columbia River Chinook KM ,' .. « ' , J * „1 HAROLD GREENE and brother David, untangle a chinook salmon from one of the two nets they by Olney Patt, Jr. August catch to 16,100 The, summer chinook har- river i with the 1976 ocean regu vest on the Columbia River got fish 1 in effect, ‘a 5 day under way as scheduled by the lations 1 season, August 8-13, Oregon and Washington fishery August . 'agencies, on the evening of ’ would provide approximately a August Sth. The two state 50 ! per cent share. A 10 day (Columbia River Compact) season with a weekend closure agencies had adopted a 10 day and ending August 20 would season for the lower Columbia reduce the Indians’ share to non-treaty fisherman, with a about 33 per cent. (Staff Re two day break on the Weekend. port pg. 7). The Compact ’agencies re However, U.S. Attorney Sidney I. Lezak (in behalf of jected their own staff recom the Warm Springs, Yakima, mendations and adopted the 10 Nez Perce, and Umatilla day season with a weekend tribes) found that a 10 day closure. This action violates season would deprive the trea the treaties as previously in ty Indian fishermen of their 50 terpreted by this Court and the per cent share of the har United States Court of Appeals vestable catch as outlined in for the Ninth Circuit.” The court ordered that, the allocation formula of Judge George Boldt. On August 9th “the states of Oregon and he requested and was granted Washington are enjoined from a temporary restraining order permitting the harvest of up shortening the non-treaty fish river bound fall chinook by ermen’s season to 5 days. In non-treaty gillnet fishermen in the order, the Federal Court the Columbia River below for the District of Oregon said, Bonneville Dam. This Order “After reviewing plaintiffs’ takes effect at 6 p.m. August motion, memorandum and affi 13, 1976.” davits, and hearing oral argu Fishery officials from both ment from all parties as well as from counsel amici for Oregon and Washington voted Columbia River Fishermen’s on Wednesday the 11th to hon Protective Union and North or Judge Belloni’s ruling. The west Steelheaders Council of voting was done by telephone Trout Unlimited, this court between their offices in Port makes the following findings; land and Olympia. A spokes On July 28, 1976, the staffs of man for the lower Columbia the Compact agencies released fishermen told a Portland their analysis of the 1976 Col newspaper that they stand to umbia River runs of fall chi lose as much as $1.5 million in nook and steelhead and their revenues because of the ruling. recommendations for regula Possible Protest On Thursday, August 12th, tions for both the treaty and non-treaty in-river fisheries. Bureau of Indian Affairs and The two staffs and the Oregon tribal police, as well as tribal Assistant Attorney General dis game wardens from Warm cussed these with the Indian Springs and Yakima, were on tribes and the Department of hand at several Indian launch the Interior on August 2, 1976. sites along the Columbia River They were the only staff re in anticipation of threatened commendations made to the protests in the wake of Judge Compact agencies of the public Belloni’s ruling. (In the past, hearing on August 3, 1976.. The confrontations between the two Staff Report stated that the factions have consisted, for the treaty Indian share of the har most part, of rock throwing, vestable 1976 upper Columbia name calling, and a few minor run above the Bridge of the Gods, near Cascade River (i.e., above Bonneville injuries. This time federal and ™ n day,g 3 ch|nook> 2 Dam) fall chinook could be tribal officers felt that the cir- , (Continued on Page 8) provided by reducing the lower steelhead.
