LNR is a co-manager of several treaty-reserved fisheries: including Chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, coho salmon, chum salmon, pink salmon, halibut, Dungeness crab, Manila clams, sea cucumbers, geoduck clams, and sea urchins. In support of this, LNR performs a number of activities:
A Lummi Fishing Vessel.
- Negotiates management agreements with the State and other tribal co-managers
- Files regulations to open fisheries and maintains a fishery hotline for Lummi fishers.
- Issues fishing permits to tribal members
- Maintains a tribal fishing vessel registry and issues tribal vessel licenses
- Samples biological data from the catch
- Conducts crab shell-condition testing
- Stock assessment (population) surveys
- Determines harvest targets for on-reservation fisheries
- Provides harvest monitoring required by the International Shellfish Sanitation Program and the FDA
- Tracks and reports harvest data by harvest area from wholesale buyers.
- Coordinates with Lummi Law & Order and tribal lawyers to ensure compliance with fishery regulations
