Salmon Restoration-- Part of the Solution!

Pacific Northwest NANFA members continue to assist one of the region's most unique fish resources: the salmon.  The work of these members has apparently paid dividends in one stream near Seattle.  A run of coho salmon (Onchorhynchus kisutch), and possibly chum salmon (O. keta), has spawned for two consecutive years in a tributary of the Green River which was previously unreacheable due to a blocked culvert. NANFA members cleaned out a debris pile which had built up behind the culvert.   Members continue to monitor the culvert for debris.

Other salmon-habitat-related efforts have been to remove debris which blocked upstream migration, and planting woody vegetation to attempt to stabilize stream banks in Poulsbo and Bremerton, WA.  NANFA members have high hopes that the vegetation will stabilize eroded banks in these urbanized areas. 

Several community groups (sport fishing groups, environmental groups and schools), governmental agencies, and NANFA members have combined their efforts on salmon habitat projects.  One of the more promising projects is chum and coho egg-planting.  A salmon hatchery donated 2,000 chum salmon eggs for a 1998 project. 

This is one region that is trying to be part of the solution!