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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
‘Large enough to
serve you... Small
enough to care’
866-299-0644
January 12, 2022
Zone 6 winter sturgeon fishery
A commercial sturgeon
season is set through 12 p.m.
on Monday, Januar y 31.
The open area is all of Zone
6.
Allowed gear is setlines
with no more than 100 hooks
per line of 9/0 or larger, and
treble hooks are not allowed.
Visible buoys must be at-
tached and have the opera-
tors name and tribal identi-
fication. Fishers are encour-
aged to use circle hooks.
Allowed sales are stur-
geon between 38 and 54
inches fork length in the
Bonneville Pool, and be-
tween 43 and 54 inches fork
length in The Dalles and
John Day pools. They may
also be kept for subsistence
use.
Sanctuaries are the stan-
dard dam areas applicable to
setline gear. Fish landed
during the open period may
be sold after it closes.
Questons contact Mark
Manion, Harvest Manager,
Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs:
mark.manion@ctwsbnr.org
Victory in tribal fisheries case
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Covid boosters okayed
for 12-15 year olds
Last week, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration
authorized booster doses of
the Pfizer vaccine for 12- to
15-year-olds, and a shortened
wait time between the initial
series and boosters of the
Pfizer vaccine.
Based on the FDA rec-
ommendation, the U.S. Cen-
ters for Disease Control—
the CDC—then adopted the
new authorizations, provid-
ing tribes and states guidance
for implementation.
The FDA-CDC action
amended the authorization
of emergency use/ of the
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19
vaccine guidance in three
ways:
First: Expansion of
booster doses to children 12
through 15 years of age.
Booster doses were only
available to people 16 years
of age and older.
Second: Shortening the
time between completion of
the primary vaccine series
and a booster dose from six
months to five months.
After over five years of
investigations and court fil-
ings, a shellfish trafficking
case brought by the Washing-
ton Department of Fish and
Wildlife has ended with a
judge ruling the court didn’t
have jurisdiction to hear the
case in the first place
It’s the second big win for
Tulalip fishermen Hazen
Shopbell and Anthony Paul.
In early 2021, the pair re-
ceived a $50,000 settlement
for a countersuit over a false
arrest claim stemming from
the case.
Washing Fish and Wildlife
began their investigation into
Shopbell, Paul, and their com-
pany Puget Sound Seafood
Distributors back in 2016.
The lead investigator believed
the pair were illegally traffick-
ing shellfish, selling clams off-
reservation without proper
documentation.
Days before the trial was
set to begin, a flurry of court
filings changed the case and
the arguments of the state,
including where the alleged
crimes had taken place. At
issue: Did the actions being
And third: Allowing for a
third primary series dose for
certain immuno-compro-
mised children ages 5
through 11.
Several steps happened
last week before the tribes
and states began implemen-
tation of the new guidance:
First the CDC Advisory
Committee on Immuniza-
tion Practices reviewed the
FDA’s evaluations and made
its official recommendations
to the CDC director.
The CDC director then
recommended moving for-
ward on the guidelines, al-
lowing the Western States
Scientific Safety Review
Workgroup to review the
data, issuing a recommen-
dation for vaccine admin-
istration in Oregon, Wash-
ington, Nevada and Califor-
nia.
The tribes and the Or-
egon Health Authority then
issued updated guidance for
the administration of the
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19
vaccine.
Sea lion
removal at
Bonneville
Seventy-six salmon-eating
California sea lions have been
lethally
removed
at
Bonneville dam over the past
five years.
The federal government
adopted the lethal removal
policy after realizing some
years ago that the non-lethal
hazing method was ineffec-
tive.
Tribes and states have
implemented the lethal re-
moval policy.
The sea lions are not na-
tive to this body of water,
and the sea lions have been
consuming up to 13,000
salmon each spring, accord-
ing to fisheries studies.
prosecuted happen on tribal
land, or inside Washington?
Last week, Judge Brian
Stiles determined that the
state’s case did not belong in
a Skagit County courtroom,
telling lawyers as he dismissed
the case.
“My decision is consistent
with the heart of the Treaty
of Rafeedie Consent Decree,
preserving Treaty Rights that
were gained many years ago.
This court shouldn’t be in-
volved in those issues,” Stiles
ruled.
The question over who
should have had jurisdiction
has floated in the background
for years. The Tulalip Tribe
chairwoman essentially told
Fish and Wildlife to back off
in previous letters.
Following reports on this
case, the Northwest Indian
Fisheries Council wrote a
similar letter, urging them to
stop enforcement actions that
violated law. The letter said it
looked like Fish and Wildlife
was “focusing its enforcement
efforts against tribal mem-
bers who typically do not have
the resources to defend them-
selves.”
It’s a similar argument to
what attorney Gabe Galanda
had said in court, arguing that
rather than go after powerful
tribes—Fish and Wildlife was
instead going after individual
tribe members.
Washington Fish and Wild-
life has denied that it was go-
ing after tribal members,
though questions were by de-
fense attorneys about hand-
written notes by Fish and
Wildlife investigator Wendy
Willette. Those notes included
questions like, “Why is PSSD
selling crab to other whole-
salers while monopolizing the
Tulalip crab fishery?” and
“Why has PSSD taken all
business from other estab-
lished Tulalip buyers?”
Galanda specifically noted
her use of terms “reverse-
racism,” and a quote: “We’re
going to sell to our own kind
now,” in her notes.
The latest ruling doesn’t
mean things are over for
Shopbell and Paul: It’s still
possible that the state could
appeal the decision.
To date, Washington Fish
and Wildlife has made it clear
that despite the complaints
of racism, and targeting of
tribal members that they’ve
simply followed the investiga-
tion where it led to.