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July 27, 2011
Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
Eel Season at Willamette Falls
Donte Smith, Jered Tichette and (from left) Devontre Thomas
eeling at the falls.
BNR message regarding lamprey
Photos courtesy of Sara Thompson/CRITFC
Ahliyah Hisatake, JoElla Smith, Cheyenne Wahnetah, TaSheena George at the falls.
VGarm Springs summer youth
workers made their annual visit
to Willamette Falls this month.
The youth, working with Lana
Leonard and Natural Resources
staff, brought back eels that are
then given to elders of the tribes.
The lamprey season at the
falls is open Friday-through
Monday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. until the
end of July. Natural Resources
collects information from those
who gather eels (see article at fa r
right).
The information is used to
monitor the health of the eel
population, which has been in
decline in recent years. In other
recent lamprey news:
Tribal regulation
T ribal C ouncil last week
adopted a resolution that regu
lates tribal member eeling activi
ties at the falls.
Willamette Falls is among the
usual and accustomed fishing
places o f the C onfederated
Tribes of Warm Springs.
Some provisions of the reso
lution, recomm ended by the
Branch o f Natural Resources
(BNR), state in part:
Tribal members wishing to
take eels for cerem onial and
subsistence purposes shall se
cure a permit from the Warm
springs BNR staff and shall
limit their take to four days per
week, Friday through Monday
of each w eek... ending July 31,
2011. Flarvest is limited to day
light hours 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This is a subsistence fishery,
there is no harvest limit. Sub
sistence is defined by Tribal
Code 340.100 Definitions (9):
Subsistence fishing means the
taking of fish by members for
the personal use of members,
including the sale or exchange
with other treaty Indians for
their personal use but not for
sale or trade with non-Indians.
Tribal members shall carry
their tribal perm it and tribal
identification with them at all
times. (The permit, or harvest
record, can be obtained free to
tribal members at BNR).
BNR personnel shall moni
tor the fish ery and W arm
Springs law enforcement per
sonnel shall enforce these regu
lations with regard to Warm
Springs tribal members partici
pating in the 2011 eel season at
Willamette Falls.
W illam ette Falls w ill be
accessib le for eel fishing
through July 31, 2011. PGE
w ill be in stallin g the
flashboards to direct more
water through the turbines.
The de-watered portion of
the falls w ill be good for
eeling.
The Branch of N atural
Resources (BNR) has been
assisting the summer youth
group to harvest eels.
BNR is also taking infor
mation from those who catch
eels to help understand what
is needed to help the eels.
Some have external tags and
others have in tern al tags.
BNR is scanning for these
tags, measuring and weighing
the eels.
Please help them out by
bringing your eels to the
Sportsm en’s M arina boat
ramp underneath the 1-205
bridge. A BNR creel techni
cian will also be working in
the area for the entire eel sea
son.
Eels caught by the sum
mer youth group will be taken
to the tribal freezer, and
passed out at the W arm
Springs M arket and taken
directly to elders.
If you missed the creel
technician, and wish to give
your catch inform ation to
BNR staff, call Jen Graham,
541-553-2006;
L arry
“Bubba” Holliday, 541-553-
2042; or Mark Manion, 541-
553-2042.
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