The Power of Partnership

The 40-member Coast Salmon Partnership leads the long-term protection of the Washington’s Olympic Peninsula salmon rivers and populations. Formed by coastal counties, cities, tribes and ports in 2007, with the help of Wild Salmon Center, it also includes the fishing and timber industries, watershed councils, and conservation partners.

SkeenaWild Conservation Trust was formed in 2007 as a regional conservation initiative with the goal of making the Skeena watershed and nearby coastal communities a global model of sustainability. SkeenaWild works on an array of projects and initiatives to conserve and rebuild wild salmon and steelhead populations, improve management decisions and deepen people’s connection with wild salmon.

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) is Wild Salmon Center’s strategic partner working on the long-term protection of wild salmon and steelhead ecosystems in British Columbia’s inner central coast: the Dean River, Fitz Hugh Sound, Bentick Arms, and the Fisher, Burke and Dean marine channels. CRC takes a collaborative approach to address complex fisheries management, habitat, and development issues on BC’s inner central coast.

The Babine Partnership between Wild Salmon Center and the Babine River Foundation advances our shared conservation goals in the Babine – a major tributary of the Skeena, one of the world’s premier rivers for steelhead, and a major salmon producer in the region.

Co-founded by Wild Salmon Center, the Oregon Water Partnership is fighting together for Oregon’s water future, by bringing state water data into the 21st century, supporting smart water management, and protecting and restoring our life-sustaining freshwater supply.

Oregon’s North Coast temperate rainforests hold some of the strongest remaining wild salmon and steelhead runs south of Canada. Stand Tall Oregon is a collection of citizens, businesses and organizations coming together to protect those forests and the clean water, fish and wildlife and recreation these lands support.

Vancouver, BC-based Watershed Watch Salmon Society is a science-based charity working to defend and rebuild B.C.’s wild salmon. The organization is grounded in sound science, tackling the complex issues facing wild salmon through collaboration with other organizations and community groups. WSC has teamed up with WWSS to end fish farming in the province of British Columbia.

The core coalition that stopped Pebble Mine and seeks to protect Bristol Bay for the long term is built on Tribal leadership and local communities. Supported and staffed by Wild Salmon Center and a small group of other organizations, the Bristol Bay campaign is joined by commercial fishermen, sportsmen, nonprofits, and businesses across the country.

Defend the West Su is a coalition of citizens, businesses and salmon advocates working to ensure a healthy, sustainable future for Alaska’s West Susitna. Plans for a dam and a 100+ mile industrial road would cause irreversible harm to rivers, wetlands, and fish and wildlife in the Susitna watershed – the 15th-largest river basin in the United States and home to five species of salmon.

The Coast Coho Partnership is a team of public and private partners, managed by the Wild Salmon Center, that convened in 2015 to accelerate the recovery of Oregon’s two coastal coho runs. Because Oregon’s coastal watersheds are largely farms and forests with free-flowing rivers, Oregon Coast coho, in particular, present a unique opportunity for recovery. Our ultimate goal is to recover Oregon Coast coho populations so that local communities can once again fish for these beloved salmon.