HeraldNet: We have seen many significant changes to Washington's landscape, climate and waters in our lifetime. We have watched with dismay as habitat, salmon runs, and shellfish beds have been lost. Ocean acidification is the most recently recognized of these changes, a serious and immediate threat to our marine resources, one that has developed at an alarming and unprecedented rate.
Salmon and shellfish are at the very core of the Tulalip Tribes' and other first nations' culture. More than just traditional...