Employment Opportunity:

The Skagit River System Cooperative is now hiring for a Director of Harvest Management position.  You may download the position description here.  The deadline for applications is January 1, 2012 or until filled.

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The Skagit River System Cooperative (SRSC) provides natural resource management services for the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. On behalf of these two sovereign nations, SRSC works to actively improve fisheries management within their usual and accustomed fishing areas. These areas include the Skagit and Samish River basins, and were ceded to the United States through treaties signed in 1855. Fisheries management carried out by SRSC includes harvest and hatchery management, research, environmental review, habitat restoration, and a range of other activities.For information regarding recovery of threatened Skagit Chinook stocks, please refer to the Skagit Chinook Recovery Plan:

• SRSC and WDFW, 2005, Skagit Chinook Recovery Plan.
• Appendix A: Trends in Spawning Escapement.
• Appendix B: Linking Egg-to-Fry Survival to Chinook Recovery.
• Appendix C: Linking Riverine Habitat Restoration to Chinook Recovery.
• Appendix D: Linking Estuary Restoration to Wild Chinook Salmon Populations.
• Appendix E: Intensively Monitored Watersheds Plan.
• Appendix F: Excerpts from Management Recommendations for WA Priority Habitats.
• Appendix G: Excerpts from the Governor’s “Extinction Is Not An Option”.
• Appendix H: Skagit Recovery Goals.

Our main office is located at 11426 Moorage Way in LaConner, Washington.  Our office hours are 8:00am-5:30pm Monday through Wednesday, 8:00am-5:00pm Thursdays and closed on Fridays.   

Website photos contributed by Rich Henderson, Greg Hood, Jef Parr, and Karen Wolf.