Category: Funded Projects

The Squaxin Island Tribe removed a private boat ramp and decommissioned a large boat basin to allow for lateral shore drift along 5.7 miles of Pickering Passage in South Puget Sound in order to increase spawning habitat for sandlance, surfsmelt, and herring.

Project funds helped remove derelict nets and fishing gear in the prioritized areas of the Chehalis River, Grays Harbor, lower Quinault River. The project 1) mapped and removed derelict gear and 2) created a lost net reporting program. In 2013, 48 lost nets were removed from the area.

The project planned to restore 500 acres of high quality estuarine habitat in southern Willapa Bay. It removed dikes culverts, fish ladders, tide gates, and other structures to restore natural tidal processes to benefit salmonids and migratory birds.