Voices from the Coast

This Alaska fight reaches Puget Sound’s salmon and orca

Timothy Schuerch July 1, 2026

Washington invests substantial public, tribal and community effort to restore its salmon runs, honor tribal treaty fishing rights and protect the salmon food supply for endangered southern resident killer whales. Yet some of those fish are caught far away in Area M, an Alaska mixed-stock fishery on the Alaska Peninsula and eastern Aleutians that intercepts salmon from across the North Pacific.

For Twenty Years, Ocean Harvests of Puget Sound Chinook Were Significantly Underestimated

Conrad Gowell June 3, 2026

There is a particular kind of heartbreak in discovering that a sacrifice was even greater than you knew. For more than two decades, fishing families, Tribal Nations, and communities across Puget Sound funded restoration efforts, accepted closed fishing seasons, and

Hope for the Recovery of the Southern Resident Killer Whales

Let Our Salmon Come Home April 23, 2026

Hope remains for the critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales. Last month, biologists with the Center for Whale Research documented a new calf traveling with L pod in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Welcome to Voices from the Coast

Let Our Salmon Come Home April 23, 2026

Voices from the Coast is the official blog of the Let Our Salmon Come Home campaign, where the untold stories behind the movement find their voice.

This Alaska fight reaches Puget Sound’s salmon and orca

For Twenty Years, Ocean Harvests of Puget Sound Chinook Were Significantly Underestimated

Hope for the Recovery of the Southern Resident Killer Whales

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