Community Involvement

Community Involvement at Lilliwaup

The Lilliwaup Creek hatchery provides a venue for hands-on education and community involvement and a source of data and information about salmon biology, fisheries, and ecology.

• LLTK has hosted many elected officials at our Hood Canal facilities, including Congressman Norm Dicks; former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton; Washington State senators Tim Sheldon, Bob Oke, and Ken Jacobsen; and all the county commissioners from Jefferson and Mason counties.
• We have hosted hundreds of Hood Canal School District students and educators, and representatives from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the South Sound Farm Forestry Association, and Bainbridge Island Fly Fishers.
• Facility manager Rick Endicott serves on the Water Resource Inventory Area 14 Salmon Recovery Funding Board project approval committee and participates in the Technical Work Groups, which coordinate the conservancy site programs with the state and Tribal co-managers. 
• LLTK welcomes the participation of community volunteers to help with a range of activities at the hatchery-- from redd surveys to facility improvements. When the hatchery suffered extensive damage as a result of flooding in late 2008, members of the South Puget Sound chapter of Puget Sound Anglers (image above) turned out to help clean up the mess.
• Each year, LLTK's Lilliwaup hatchery staff host students from the Culinary Institute of America for a tour of the facility and an introduction to our programs. The tour is designed to help these aspiring chefs understand issues related to seafood sustainability.

   

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