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Puget Sound salmon recovery is a collective effort of federal, state and local authorities and non-profit coalitions of universities, scientists, business and industry aimed at restoring Pacific salmon and anadromous forms of Pacific trout (Oncorhynchus) within the Puget Sound region.
According to 2003 data used in the Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan, published in 2007, adult spawners of natural origin in the North and Middle Fork Nooksack were about 3,500. Returning adults to ...
Funding has historically been one of the biggest challenges facing Puget Sound recovery efforts, delaying projects at the expense of Puget Sound and the salmon that rely on it, yet Newhouse and ...
But it does clearly show what this board has been saying all along: The Puget Sound salmon crisis demands thoughtful consideration of all contributing factors, with a focus on sustainable and ...
Another notable local relief effort is the People for Puget Sound. People for Puget Sound is a citizen group founded by Kathy Fletcher in 1991 working to restore the health of our local land and waters with help from volunteers in the Puget Sound basin. [27] Sweden will stop salmon fishing in Baltic Sea in 2013 to protect it. [28]
In the last 20 years, Washington State Fisheries, in cooperation with local tribes, has decreased the Puget Sound salmon harvest by as much as 90%. [7] Protection of habitat is addressed in a core/satellite model in which certain areas are identified as highly used "core" areas and less valuable "satellite" areas. [8]
The practice was found to be polluting Salmon Bay and Puget Sound with an average of 130 spills per year dumping 90 million US gallons (340 Ml) of untreated wastewater. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology ordered the Seattle city government to address the issue, signing a consent decree in 2016 to ...
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