Topic: Pacific Lamprey Adaptation Strategies

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Yurok Tribe

Develop tribal ordinance for eels to help address over-harvesting by non-Yurok; Reinforce recognition that Key’-ween are a federal trust resource.

Yurok Tribe

Continue to share and learn from what others are doing; e.g., Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s Pacific Lamprey...

Yurok Tribe

Establish regional coordination, collaboration, and cost sharing on research, monitoring, evaluation, and protection/restoration actions (CRITFC 2011). The key’-ween from other...

Yurok Tribe

Protect ammocoete habitat and increase spawning regions through dam removal.

Yurok Tribe

Focus on restoring the rivers and region holistically, including for key’-ween (pacific lamprey).

Yurok Tribe

Pursue protection, restoration, and management actions to support salmonid populations, which key’-ween are dependent upon (Moyle et al. 2013).

Yurok Tribe

Continue to develop, install, and evaluate friendly structures to assist key’-ween passage through artificial barriers such as dams, culverts, and...

Yurok Tribe

Regional supplementation/augmentation approach to key’-ween restoration, including translocation, propagation, and reintroduction (CRITFC 2011).

Yurok Tribe

Teach youth cultural behavior when eeling, e.g., be respectful, quiet and thankful.

Yurok Tribe

Publish the Culture Committee’s list of what people should know when eeling in the Yurok newsletter; also post the list...

Yurok Tribe

Continue implementing juvenile and adult tagging technology in order to “evaluate and resolve tributary passage problems” (CRITFC 2011).

Yurok Tribe

Conduct outreach to community members that skinnier key’-ween are less contaminated and healthier to eat.