Olympia, Washington — A member of the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians’ council has been put on the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board.
Kadi Bizyayeva was added to the funding board by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday. The board gives out more than $206 million every two years to repair salmon habitats across the state. He or she is also a commissioner for Northwest Indian Fisheries and the head of fisheries for the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department. She has worked in the same job for more than 10 years.
“Inslee said in a statement that Kadi has been a strong voice for protecting and restoring salmon and their habitat all along the Salish Sea.” “She will be able to keep doing that work while also contributing her Tribal perspective and traditional ecological knowledge to the board’s decisions as she serves on this board.”
She has worked for the Stillaguamish Tribe’s Natural Resources Department since 2013 and is Russian. It was there that she worked with governments from across the state to handle treaty resources and help them get back species that were in danger in the Stillaguamish River watershed. Two of Puget Sound’s 22 threatened Chinook salmon species are in this group.
“She has worked on salmon recovery for more than ten years and knows the problems, the people, and the fish.” “That information will help us a lot in our work all over the state,” said Megan Duffy, who runs the Recreation and Conservation Office.
