Long Live the Kings

Hood canal bridge: the hood canal bridge ecosystem impact assessment addresses salmon and steelhead mortality at the largest salt water floating bridge in the world. Up to 50% of juvenile steelhead that make it to the bridge do not survive past it. Lltk facilitates a partnership approach to assess the causes of high fish mortality at the bridge and test solutions that do not compromise the bridge's transportation function.

Lilliwaup: lilliwaup programs include conservation hatchery efforts to rebuild hood canal salmon and steelhead populations, status and trends monitoring, and rearing experiments to improve hatchery methods. Central to this programing is the hood canal steelhead project, a multi-agency partnership begun by noaa fisheries and lltk to test a basin-wide approach to rebuilding depleted wild steelhead runs.

Ssmsp: the salish sea marine survival project leverages human and financial resources from the united states and canada to determine and address the primary factors affecting the survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead in the salish sea. At its peak, it was the largest research project of its kind in the shared waters of british columbia and Washington state with over 60 partnering organizations addressing a key uncertainty impeding salmon recovery and sustainable fisheries. the findings from this comprehensive study of the physical, chemical, and biological factors impacting salmon survival, are applied to improve our collective understanding of salmon in saltwater, facilitating smarter management and stronger returns.

Glenwood: our glenwood springs facility on orcas island is focused on supplementing chinook salmon in the san juan islands and the strait of Georgia for harvest by humans and orca whales. Here, we are conducting experiments to improve the effectiveness of hatchery production, with a goal of higher survival rates at sea and larger returning fish. We also support a kokanee fishery in cascade lake and rear kokanee from lake sammamish for a wild population recovery program.

Other programs: Long Live the Kings is also advancing salmon recovery and sustainable fishing in the pacific northwest by building a constituency for salmon recovery through the survive the sound campaign, advancing estuary restoration in the duwamish and nisqually rivers, piloting stormwater biofiltration technology, addressing climate change impacts in the lake Washington ship canal, and supporting various salmon research efforts in puget sound.