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.
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 backed hard conservation measures—all in the belief that more of their salmon would survive the […]
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.
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.
