INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHELLFISH RESTORATION

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHELLFISH RESTORATION

• November 19 22, 2008
• Charleston, SC
• Shellfish Management in Washington State
• Dan Barth, Seattle Shellfish LLC
• dbarth_at_localaccess.com

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Shellfish Management in Washington State
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Fish and Shellfish Management in Washington
StateNative and Non Native Co-management

• State Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Tribes Tribal Councils, Natural Resource/Fishery
  Managers
• Private Shellfish Growers, Commercial Fisherman,
  Recreational users

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North American Indian Lands
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Some Native American Nations, Tribes, Bands and
People

• Crow, Seminole, Blackfoot, Pequot, Mandan,
  Duwamish, Chiricahua Apache, Santee Sioux,
  Yankton Sioux, Brule Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Kiowa,
  Nez Perce, Hunkpapa Sioux, Ponca, Cupa, Apache,
  Navajo, Hopi, Havisupi, Zuni, Husulia, Mohogeans
  Salish Peoples, Sauk, Cherokee, Oawnee,
  Pottawatomie, Cree, Wayandoit Choctaw, Omaha
  Seneca, Ottawa Delaware, Naudowessie, Ojibwa,
  Chippewa, Iroquois, Cayuga, Onondga, Oneida,
  Wampanoag, Narraganset, Massachuset, Powhatan,
  Timucua, and far too many more to mention here.

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Well Known Native Americans
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Well Known Native Americans
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Well Known Native Americans
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Western Migration in America
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Tribes in Washington State
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Tribes in Washington State
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Puget Sound Indian TreatiesTerritorial Governor
Isaac StevensIndian Chiefs and Leaders

• Medicine Creek 1854
• Neah Bay 1855
• Point Elliott 1855
• Point Non Point 1855
• Olympia 1856

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Medicine Creek Treaty

• Article 5. The right of taking fish at usual and
  accustomed grounds and stations is further
  secured to said Indians in common with all
  citizens of the Territory.
• Features of the policy outlined by Gov. Stevens
• 1 To concentrate the Indians upon a few
  reservations, and encourage then to cultivate the
  soil and adopt settled and civilized habits.
• 2 To pay for their lands not in money, but in
  annuities of blankets, clothing and useful
  articles during a long term of years.
• 3 To furnish them with schools, teachers, farmers
  and implements, blacksmiths, and carpenter, with
  shops of those trades.
• 4 To prohibit wars and disputes among them.
• 5 To abolish slavery.
• 6 To stop as far as possible the use of liquor.
• 7 As the change from savage to civilized habits
  must necessarily be gradual, they were to retain
  the right of fishing at their accustomed fishing
  places, and of hunting, gathering berries and
  roots and pasturing stock on unoccupied land as
  long as it remained vacant.

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Judicial Review and Adjudication

• Boldt Decision 1974 (14 Tribes)
• This decision upheld the Tribes treaty
  reserved right to half of the harvestable fish
  (finfish) in the State and established them as
  co-managers of the resource.
• Rafeedie Decision 1994 (17 Tribes)
• This decision upheld the Tribes treaty
  reserved right to half of the harvestable
  shellfish in the intertidal waters and
  established them as co-managers of the resource
  in Washington State.
• Settlement Agreement and Accord 2007

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Pacific Salmon and Steelhead
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Shellfish in Washington State
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2007 Settlement Agreement and Accord between the
Tribes and commercial shellfish growers

• Key pieces of the agreement
• 1 The Tribes will forgo their treaty right to
  harvest an estimated 2 million worth of
  naturally occurring shellfish annually from
  commercial growers beds.
• 2 Growers will provide, over 10 years, 500,000
  worth of shellfish enhancement on public
  tidelands of the states choosing.
• 3 A 33 million trust is established for the 17
  treaty tribes to acquire and enhance other
  tidelands to which they have exclusive access.

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Native American Influences

• Legends and stories
• Place names
• Animal names
• Music
• Art
• Totems

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Shellfish Resources in Washington State

• Thank You
• Dan Barth
• 115 Grimes Road
• Centralia, WA 98531
• dbarth_at_ localaccess.com