{"id":3485,"date":"2020-02-12T01:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2020-02-12T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:20:45","slug":"pacific-lamprey-project-in-peril-after-floods-wash-away-hundreds-of-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atnitribes.org\/climatechange\/2020\/02\/12\/pacific-lamprey-project-in-peril-after-floods-wash-away-hundreds-of-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific lamprey project in peril after floods wash away hundreds of fish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Original story published by the Guardian at this link<\/a><\/p>\n

Pacific lamprey project in peril after floods wash away hundreds of fish<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At least 250 unaccounted for after heavy rainfall across Pacific north-west overwhelmed cage of fish waiting to be released<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nina Lakhani<\/a><\/div>\n
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The Pacific lamprey \u2013 a jawless fish that looks like an eel \u2013 is considered a \u2018first food\u2019 by the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes, as it was a key element of their ancestors\u2019 diet. Photograph: Fredlyfish4\/Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/header>\n

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A pioneering tribal biodiversity project to restore the sacred Pacific lamprey population has been dealt a major blow after huge floods washed away hundreds of fish before they could be released into the wild.<\/p>\n

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) have spent two decades reintroducing the lamprey into tributaries of the Columbia River after US government dams and industrial fishing wiped out the endemic species.<\/p>\n

The Pacific lamprey \u2013 a jawless fish that looks like an eel \u2013 is considered a \u201cfirst food<\/a>\u201d by the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes, which make up the confederation, as it was a key element of their ancestors\u2019 diet.<\/p>\n