Projects

December 16th, 2011 -- [This article was originally published in the Island Sounder] The San Juan Islands Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers donated the

December 13th, 2011 -- [This article was originally published in the Kitsap Sun] OLYMPIA — Restoration of the Dosewallips River estuary on the west side of Hood Canal continues next year with a $506,000 grant approved by the state's Salmon Recovery Funding Board.

December 7th, 2011 -- The latest updates and news about our programs at Glenwood Springs Hatchery on Orcas Island.

December 7th, 2011 -- The latest updates about our programs based at Lilliwaup Hatchery on Hood Canal.

September 12th, 2011 -- The Chinook are returning to our Glenwood Springs Hatchery! To-date, over 1,300 Chinook have made their way back from the ocean and into our hatchery, and there are many more jumping in the bay, preparing to climb the ladder.

September 1st, 2011 -- Long Live the Kings will celebrate its 25th year of restoring wild salmon and steelhead and supporting sustainable fishing with a public salmon homecoming open house at Glenwood Springs—our original, natural-rearing salmon hatchery on Orcas Island—on Saturday, September 24, 2011.

June 22nd, 2011 -- Spring of 2011 brought mass-marking and coded wire tagging to Glenwood Springs. The goal of our Glenwood Springs program is to provide opportunities for northern Puget Sound sport fisheries that are consistent with wild fish recovery. To help accomplish that goal, we “mark” the fish produced at the Glenwood facility by removing the adipose fin on the back of the fish so hatchery origin fish can be identified and kept in the fishery while wild fish are released.

June 22nd, 2011 -- Redd Surveys, Egg Collection, and Fish Releases: Lilliwaup staff began redd surveys in mid-February on the Duckabush and Hamma Hamma River and then in March on the Little Quilcene. In total, 70 redds (steelhead nests) were counted on the Duckabush, 37 redds on the Hamma, the areas where steelhead population rebuilding efforts are or have taken place.

March 11th, 2011 -- The Hood Canal Steelhead Project (HCSP) is a comprehensive study of wild steelhead supplementation techniques and steelhead life history in streams throughout Hood Canal.

December 16th, 2010 -- 2010 marked a leadership change at LLTK, the culmination of a significant long-term project, and the beginnings of several new initiatives. Learn more about what we accomplished, the new members who joined our Board of Directors, and the generous supporters who enabled our work by reading our  2010 Year-End Newsletter.