Photo: Tribal Marine Stewards Network
"My ancestors were scientists before the word ‘scientist’ came into their lives,” says Jaytuk Steinruck of the Tribal Marine Stewards Network, a growing alliance of California Tribal Nations applying Indigenous knowledge and Tribal science to manage fisheries and coastal habitats in the face of rising ocean temperatures and sea levels, coastal erosion, extreme storms, and drought. The Pew Charitable Trusts has provided funding and technical assistance to TMSN since 2022 and supports the Yurok-Tolowa-Dee-ni' Indigenous Marine Stewardship Area, a first-of-its-kind designation enacted by three TMSN member Tribes. Pew also advocated for passage of legislation encouraging the California Natural Resources Agency to enter into co-governance and co-management agreements with Tribes on their ancestral lands and waters.
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