Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested annually to protect and recover declining fish populations in the Northwest, many fundamental questions regarding our region’s wild fish resources remain unanswered.
Existing assumptions have too often been made in lieu of empirical study. Testing those assumptions drives Wild Fish Conservancy’s research and monitoring program.
We conduct research and monitoring projects in rivers, on lakes, and in near-shore marine habitats, at sites heavily impacted by human activity and in pristine areas untouched by development. We document the abundance and diversity of targeted species, their behavioral patterns, and geographic distribution. We study salmon spawning activity, fish passage at road crossings, water diversions, and agricultural pump facilities, and interactions between wild and hatchery fish.
Fish habitat in the Duckabush and Dosewalllips river floodplains was restored through weed control and tree plantings, significantly improving the most active channel migration zone for salmonids.
An assessment to determine the extent and distribution of juvenile-fish use and migration in nearshore marine habitats along the western shore of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound
Spawning serverys were conducted in Whatcom, King and Thurston Counties to identify occurrences of pre-spawn mortality and the land use and GIS features that overlapped with those occurrences.
Wild Fish Conservancy completed spawning surveys in Snohomish County examining dead coho for pre-spawn mortality and high egg retention.
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