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Salmon Recovery in Mason County 


As Washington’s population has grown, its salmon have dwindled. In 1991, the federal government declared the first salmon in the Pacific Northwest, Snake River sockeye, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. In the next few years, 16 more species of salmon were listed as either threatened or endangered.

​By 1999, wild salmon had disappeared from about 40 percent of their historic breeding ranges in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and California.
In Washington, the numbers had dwindled so much that salmon and bull trout were listed as threatened or endangered in nearly three-fourths of the state.

​There are many things that have contributed to the decline of salmon populations but they generally can be put in two major categories:
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Human influences
  • Loss, fragmentation, and destruction of salmon habitat
  • Land uses that pollute waterways and degrade habitat
  • Dams
  • Over fishing
  • Hatcheries that produce fish that compete with wild salmon for limited resources
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Changes to the natural environment
  • Fluctuating marine conditions
  • Climate change
  • Increases in predators

​​(from Washington State Recreation & Conservation Office)  

Click each WRIA (Water Resource Inventory Area) to learn more about their lead entities 
Click the maps for the status of WRIA's natural salmonID populations 
WRIA 14
map of totten inlet
WRIA 16
map of lake cushman area
WRIA 22
map of grays harbor area
Mason Conservation District
450 W Business Park RD
Shelton, WA 98584
Phone: (360) 427-9436
Fax: (360) 427-4396

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