The REDD Fall 2021 Newsletter is Published!
This year the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group has been celebrating 30 years of successful collaboration with our community to restore habitat for salmon. However, Skagit Fisheries is not alone in celebrating this milestone. As one of 14 Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups across Washington State, we are part of a statewide celebration of important salmon work occurring at the community level over the past 30 years.
The Washington State Legislature created the Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group (RFEG) program in 1990 to involve local communities, citizen volunteers, and landowners in the state’s salmon recovery efforts. Like Skagit Fisheries, each of the state’s 14 RFEGs is an independent, local, nonprofit organization with its own board of directors and is supported by its members. Each RFEG creates local partnerships with landowners, tribes, businesses, volunteers, agencies, and other non-governmental organizations to lead their communities in successful restoration, education, and monitoring projects. Each RFEG serves different watersheds in diverse communities across the state so that anywhere there are salmon in Washington, there is an RFEG working with their community to steward salmon resources.
This year the Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Program is celebrating 30 years of working for salmon at the community level. The Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group is a proud part of this statewide program celebrating 30 years of accomplishments.
Read more about the Statewide 30 year celebration, Orca Recovery Day, Chinook at Pressentin Park and more by clicking here:
![Today is Endangered Species Day, an internationally recognized day of learning about endangered species and what you can do to help them. According to Skagit County, "three Skagit watershed salmonid species have been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. [Additionally, the] Orca whales that feed on these fish have been listed as “endangered,” a more serious classification that triggers the most protective regulations".
Those listed are:
Puget Sound Chinook Salmon (anadromous; listed 1999)
Puget Sound Bull Trout (some anadromous; listed 1999)
Puget Sound Steelhead (an anadromous form of rainbow trout; listed 2007)
NOAA Fisheries has listed 28 population groups of salmon and steelhead on the West Coast as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act - you can read the recovery plans for the genetically different salmon runs from the National Oceaninc and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at the link in our bio for more information.
Pictured: Puget Sound Chinook (photo by Jess Newley)
Juvenile Skagit Steelhead
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