Wild Salmon of the Pacific

Salmon are resilient, but man-made obstacles combined with the threat of climate change may be more than they can handle. In this short film produced in conjunction with the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP), Wild Salmon Center explores what we can do to affect the future of not only salmon, but the future of all the species that depend on them, including our own.

California Strongholds: Threats and Vulnerabilities Assessment

A truly effective salmon conservation effort in California requires state, federal, and tribal resource managers along with leading non-governmental agencies to prioritize, coordinate, and fund landscape-scale strategies to conserve the healthiest wild salmon ecosystems – known as “salmon strongholds” – across jurisdictional boundaries, in partnership with local stakeholders. To reach that goal, the effort must first identify threats and needs in each of California’s identified strongholds.

Oregonian: The State of Pacific Salmon? Not So Wild

Today’s public perception is that we can benefit — and in some cases recover – wild salmon through hatcheries. From our earliest school years we’re exposed to the notion of hatcheries as a tool for rebuilding salmon populations. But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests they may have the opposite effect. This apparent paradox is the subject of an international State of the Salmon conference starting today in Portland.