We envision a future where salmon once again return in abundance to their home watersheds across the Pacific Coast—restoring and sustaining ecosystems, communities, and cultures for generations to come.
Achieving this vision is possible. By rising together in a powerful coastwide movement spanning California to Alaska, we can curtail unsustainable ocean fishing and Let Our Salmon Come Home.
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We envision a future where salmon once again return in abundance to their home watersheds across the Pacific Coast—restoring and sustaining ecosystems, communities, and cultures for generations to come. This future depends on transitioning commercial-scale salmon fisheries out of the ocean—where hundreds of salmon populations originating from watersheds across the North American Pacific Coast migrate and commingle side by side.
Ocean-based fisheries occurring far from the rivers and estuaries where salmon originate and return cannot be managed sustainably to allow for selective harvesting of individual abundant populations while protecting commingling populations threatened with extinction. Inevitably, too many of our salmon and steelhead are killed in ocean fisheries—and too few fish return home to spawn and give rise to a new generation for recovery.
By reducing the abundance and diversity of our salmon populations, commercial-scale ocean fisheries further drive cascading ecological impacts across interconnected food webs. This is exemplified by the starvation of Southern Resident killer whales that are deprived of their primary food resource—Chinook salmon.
Hindering the recovery of salmon and their ecosystems, ocean fisheries and conventional management frameworks impose disproportionate sacrifices on coastal and river-based communities from California to Alaska. While many watersheds and communities face increasing fisheries restrictions and closures to protect salmon populations from extinction, policymakers continue to authorize industrial-scale fishing on the same populations in the open ocean. Communities and governments bearing the primary responsibility for restoring and protecting salmon ecosystems within local watersheds repeatedly see decades of recovery investments undermined as unsustainable ocean fisheries intercept, harm, and overharvest salmon miles from home.
United by a vision of abundant salmon, healthy ecosystems, and thriving communities, our movement—representing individuals, organizations, and businesses across the West Coast of the United States and Canada—calls on all policymakers to reform mixed-stock fishing in the ocean and Let Our Salmon Come Home. Together, we envision a coastwide transition toward sustainable and equitable salmon fisheries that occur in or near the rivers and estuaries where salmon originate and return.
Embracing this science-based vision for the future, we can promote the development of resilient and responsible Pacific Coast salmon fisheries; provide a path to recovery for endangered Southern Resident killer whales by restoring access to prey; increase salmon returns to depleted watersheds; restore local stewardship and governance to coastal and in-river communities over the destiny and recovery of salmon, ecosystems, and fisheries; and honor our obligation to ensure that Pacific salmon—and the cultures and ecosystems they sustain—endure for generations to come.
