Coal Exports to Asia Would Obstruct Pacific NW Treaty Rights, Tribes Say

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Treaty fishing rights are meaningless without healthy fish populations. Harvest increased after 1974’s Boldt decision upheld treaty rights, but has plunged with habitat degradation. Now tribes say the coal industry’s bid to export millions of tons through Oregon and Washington waterways will degrade salmon and cultural foods habitat, and impact treaty rights.read more

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