9th Circuit Affirms Findings In Dispute Over Puget Sound Tribal Fishing Rights

(September 21, 2023, 3:57 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A federal trial court did not err in finding that the Lummi Nation does not have fishing rights in the waters east of Puget Sound’s Whidbey Island because no evidence shows that the tribe historically fished there, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found in affirming the trial court’s decision....