Explore community-led restoration projects!
We recently launched the Community Salmon Restoration Atlas, a collaboration between the PSF Grants Program and the Marine Data Centre. Users of the Atlas can explore hundreds of restoration projects funded by the Community Salmon Program grants in an interactive map. With details on the location, activities, techniques employed, people involved, and outcomes, stakeholders can make informed decisions about future restoration strategies and priorities.
The work is not done yet. Over the next year, more projects will be added, including more PSF grant-funded work as well as projects from other community groups.
Check out the Atlas:
Pacific salmon are famous for incredible migrations back to their home rivers, but they spend most of their adult lives in the ocean.
Beginning in the 1970s, Pacific salmon’s marine survival rates — the number of fish that survive the migration from river to ocean and return as adults – mysteriously and sharply declined. Efforts to reduce harvest, restore habitat, and improve hatchery practices in the decades since have not led to recovery.
Tasked with explaining this catastrophic drop-off in abundance, PSF completed a five-year transboundary project called the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project in 2020, which identified several urgent areas of research and action to advance Pacific salmon recovery. This led to PSF launching the Marine Science Program, which continues to advance knowledge of Pacific salmon by addressing the findings from the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project.
With climate change and human-made issues putting even more pressure on Pacific salmon, PSF’s Marine Science Program is uniquely positioned to carry out independent and science-based oceanic research to inform experts, government, and the public.
Together, we can all work towards creating a prosperous future for Pacific salmon.