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In 2021, we updated the Statewide Salmon Recovery Strategy to put Washington on a recovery path that more actively protects salmon — strengthening the state’s commitment and accountability ...
Puget Sound salmon recovery is a collective effort of federal, ... This page was last edited on 25 December 2024, at 15:49 (UTC).
Chum salmon. Chum salmon are also named dog or calico salmon. The species develop large, canine-like teeth during spawning, and typically grow to 10-15 pounds but can be as large as 33 pounds.
The Skagit, Snohomish, and Puyallup chinook runs are also gravely depleted, and as of the last major 5-year salmon recovery plan (2016), all chinook salmon populations in the Puget Sound drainage system are listed as below recovery escape levels (i.e., the level at which the population can be considered on the road to recovery). [29]
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]
For years, this editorial board has pointed out the hypocrisy of Western Washington activists who want to lay blame for the state’s salmon fishery concerns at the feet of the Snake River dams.
The first large capture event was the trapping of probably much of K Pod [127] in Yukon Harbor on the west side of Puget Sound in 1967. [129] Of the 15 trapped southern residents, three died in the operation, and five were taken into captivity, [ 130 ] [ 50 ] [ 131 ] roughly halving the population of K Pod.
August 2, 2022 at 5:00 AM. Two years after the $20 million removal of the Middle Fork Nooksack dam, salmon have safe passage through the river, but none have been seen — so now local tribes and ...