Wild Salmon Center News - January 2025

Meet James Losee, our new Senior Wild Fish Manager for Washington State
For 25 years, James Losee worked with NOAA and the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife to shape policy on where, when, and how people fish. Now, our new Washington Senior Wild Fish Manager taps this experience to protect Olympic Peninsula steelhead and salmon. “I see it as my responsibility to help reverse wild salmon decline,” he says. “It's what I lay in bed at night thinking about. And I can’t wait to continue this work at Wild Salmon Center.” Losee has a vision for his new role—one that reaches all Washingtonians, fly rod or not.
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Where we see hope for endangered coho
Wondering how recovery efforts are going for endangered Southern Oregon/Northern California Coast coho? NOAA's five-year check-in just landed—and most of its findings aren't great. Yet Wild Salmon Center's Dr. Tim Elder still sees reasons to celebrate. “In Oregon’s Elk and Rogue Rivers, coho seem to be trending in the right direction,” Dr. Elder says. “ We don’t think it’s a coincidence that coho are doing better in watersheds where Wild Salmon Center, NOAA, and our local partners are laser-focused on habitat restoration."
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We've come a long way in three decades. These wins prove it.
Since 1992, Wild Salmon Center has been laser-focused on our work to protect wild salmon and steelhead rivers. Because we’re always looking ahead—to the next policy campaign, restoration plan, or partnership—we sometimes forget to reflect on how far we’ve come. From northern Alaska to the strongholds of Southern Oregon, the salmon rivers of the North Pacific are safer because you stepped up . We scoured three decades of achievements to find these: our biggest wins of all time.
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