Hoopa Tribe donate salmon to Klamath Tribes

Daniel Jordan, a Councilman with the Hoopa Tribe, and his wife visited the Klamath Tribes. They donated on behalf of the Hoopa 22 jack Chinook salmon today, which were cooked for a Klamath Tribal elders dinner Oct. 25. “We’ve been talking about it for years,” Jordan said. “We work with Klamath Tribes, and we’re supposed to be doing this. This is what we are as Indian people. These are two-year-old salmon. Actually, they don’t count on quotas. We’re all living by quotas. These are all surplus to the quota, and so they’re free fish. They’re free to us. They’re free to you, so it’s how the fishery operates. These are two-year-olds, and we suspect that they are nature’s safeguard against us for the perpetuation of a salmon run. The two-year-olds are all jacks, so they offset the natural stock. You got three. So next year, this is a count that will see how many three-year-olds there are. So these are the two-year-olds. They kind of are an indicator of how strong the next run will be. And, of course, three-year-olds will be the indicators for the four-year-old.”