Tribe: Yurok Tribe
View Source Document: Yurok Tribe: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources
Year: 2014
Topic: Pacific Lamprey Adaptation Strategies
Develop tribal ordinance for eels to help address over-harvesting by non-Yurok; Reinforce recognition that Key’-ween are a federal trust resource.
Continue to share and learn from what others are doing; e.g., Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s Pacific Lamprey...
Establish regional coordination, collaboration, and cost sharing on research, monitoring, evaluation, and protection/restoration actions (CRITFC 2011). The key’-ween from other...
Protect ammocoete habitat and increase spawning regions through dam removal.
Focus on restoring the rivers and region holistically, including for key’-ween (pacific lamprey).
Pursue protection, restoration, and management actions to support salmonid populations, which key’-ween are dependent upon (Moyle et al. 2013).
Continue to develop, install, and evaluate friendly structures to assist key’-ween passage through artificial barriers such as dams, culverts, and...
Regional supplementation/augmentation approach to key’-ween restoration, including translocation, propagation, and reintroduction (CRITFC 2011).
Teach youth cultural behavior when eeling, e.g., be respectful, quiet and thankful.
Publish the Culture Committee’s list of what people should know when eeling in the Yurok newsletter; also post the list...
Continue implementing juvenile and adult tagging technology in order to “evaluate and resolve tributary passage problems” (CRITFC 2011).
Conduct outreach to community members that skinnier key’-ween are less contaminated and healthier to eat.
