Tribes, U.S. sign deal on NW dams (OR, WA)

The Oregonian ^ | May 3, 2008 | Scott Learn

[jazusamo]

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[okie01]

But Steve Wright, Bonneville Power's administrator, pledged that the deal will boost numbers of salmon, steelhead and lamprey in the river system.

Lamprey???

[jazusamo]

Here's some Lamprey info.

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[george76]

Next, the tribes need to go sea lion hunting.

[jazusamo]

You bet, that would solve the sea lion problem on the Columbia River.

[mickey finn]

Yummy lamprey. My friend once ate the lamprey lips at an indian ceremony. I think they all laughed at him.

They make great sturgeon bate.

[okie01]

Lamprey are parasites. Why would the tribes or the Bonneville Authority want to perpetuate their presence?

[jazusamo]

I don’t know the answer but suspect it’s something along the same lines as the enviro nuts wanting to save the sucker fish in Klamath Lake.

[fish hawk]

Lamprey eels were and still are a large part of the diet of the coastal Indians of the North West. Most like them smoked but are good cooked just about any way. Most whites balk at eating them because of the slime on the outer skin(which comes right off ) and the fact that it reminds them of snakes. It is also handy that they run a little off season from the salmon runs and makes food gathering more handy for more of the season.

[fish hawk]

And they will as soon as we open season on environ”mental”ists.

[fish hawk]

Not so. See post 11.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, fish hawk, that’s interesting and makes a lot of sense.

[okie01]

Lamprey eels were and still are a large part of the diet of the coastal Indians of the North West. Most like them smoked but are good cooked just about any way.

OK. That makes sense. Thanks for the informative response.

My attitude was based on the understanding that lampreys ingtruded and virtually destroyed the lake trout population in the Great Lakes.

Is there no risk of such a thing in the Columbia Basin?

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[fish hawk]

The Great Lakes is a separate matter. They have had big problems with Lampreys there in the past. That may have been fixed by now. I admit I do not know very much about the Lamprey problems on the Columbia, or in fact, if there are any problems. I do know a lot about the Klamath as I am a Yurok Indian from there. On the Klamath the Lampreys come into the mouth and go upstream to spawn just like the salmon do. The Klamath is swift and fish and eels work hard to get up to their spawning grounds. The Lampreys there don't seem to do any damage to salmon, if any at all. I've caught salmon before with Lamprey sucker marks on their sides but never heard of an eel killing a salmon. And like the salmon, they are fresher and better eating the closer to the mouth of the river you catch them.

[Just Lori]

Mark for later.

[rockrr]

It wasn’t theirs to “lose” and it isn’t theirs to reclaim. Once again civilization pays the price of political correctness...

[Schmuck281]

Hmm. The government made an agreement 50 years ago. What did the tribes get then?

Why do we have to pay more now?

Isn’t this “Indian Giving?”