The primary purpose of our projects is to assist in the restoration of wild salmon and steelhead runs in hoodcanal the following activities were identified as the expected accomplishments of this…

This Project Grant award of $137,632 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 provides funding through September 30, 2026 to support habitat restoration and species recovery efforts in Washington State. The funding will support Long Live The Kings, doing business as Long L Kings, to maintain a hatchery, conduct field work including monitoring and surveys, coordinate scientists assessing the Hood Canal Bridge, and contribute to the development of salmon and steelhead recovery plans.

The award aims to assist in the restoration of wild salmon and steelhead runs in Hood Canal through activities like operating a hatchery, field sampling and surveys, and bridge impact assessment coordination. It will also support the awardee's involvement in recovery planning teams and action plans for species listed under the Endangered Species Act present in Puget Sound and Hood Canal, including Chinook, chum, and steelhead populations as well as Southern Resident killer whales. The funding is provided through the Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) to support coastal habitat protection, restoration, and improvement benefiting trust species.

The primary purpose of our projects is to assist in the restoration of wild salmon and steelhead runs in hoodcanal the following activities were identified as the expected accomplishments of this cooperative agreement a maintain lltk s lilliwaup hatchery and continue field work, including sampling, streamside and in riversurveying, and various other monitoring tasks associated with the hood canal steelhead project and summer chumrecovery b coordinate the scientists and others participating in the assessment of hood canal bridge, provide field andanalysis support, and synthesize the results of phase 1 and move forward into phase 2 c further ESA listed puget sound and hood canal chinook, chum and steelhead recovery via participation inplanning in general also, contribute to the development of the puget sound steelhead recovery plan as a memberof the recovery planning team, and to the development of a prey salmon action plan for southern resident killerwhales as members of the governor s orca task force these long term efforts are described on the following pages within the context of ongoing, species specificrecovery projects