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Alaska state legislators move to boost fisheries protections for Bristol Bay

In the closing days of Alaska’s 2025 legislative session, state lawmakers introduced the Bristol Bay Forever Act. The act would safeguard the entire, 36,000-square-mile Bristol Bay Fisheries Reserve from all large-scale metallic sulfide mining: the type most harmful to salmon. For decades, Bristol Bay—the world’s greatest sockeye salmon nursery—has been dogged by the threat of mining operations like Pebble Mine. This bipartisan legislation would add protections against these threats. Wild Salmon Center and the Bristol Bay Forever campaign are working to build support for this critical bill, and you can help ([link removed])!

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For the Makah, World War II is still a problem for salmon streams

On the Makah Reservation, in the Olympic Peninsula’s far northwest, a massive, failing World War II-era culvert is threatening a vital transportation route for this remote community. Built without fish passage in mind, it also isn’t doing salmon any favors. The 30-foot square concrete tunnel turns into a firehose in winter—and in summer, its flow spreads fingernail-thin across the flat floor: much too low and slow for fish. Now, the Makah Tribe and Wild Salmon Center are partnering on a plan to fix this problematic relic once and for all ([link removed]).

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NEW WEBINAR: Dr. Will Atlas on artificial intelligence and ancient fishing technology

Join us live on Wednesday, July 16, at 12 p.m. Pacific as Wild Salmon Center Senior Salmon Watershed Scientist Dr. Will Atlas dives into Salmon Vision: a cutting-edge, A.I.-driven project that's innovating how we monitor salmon runs. This exciting webinar is first up in our new Headwaters: Side Channel series. Each Side Channel webinar in the series will highlight a Wild Salmon Center project, program, or campaign key to our stronghold strategy for the North Pacific.

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Meet Kirk Blaine

From his first-ever steelhead, Kirk Blaine—Wild Salmon Center’s new Oregon Senior Wild Fish Manager—was hooked on salmon conservation. “The North Umpqua is a very difficult river to fish,” Blaine says of his home river in Southern Oregon. “I’d been fishing for 30 straight days. And then I caught one. It grabbed at my heartstrings, this urge to want to protect it.” Now, with Wild Salmon Center, he’s working to advance policies to protect wild fish across the Oregon Coast. We sat down with Blaine to learn more about his work, and why not even fire could steer him from his chosen career path ([link removed]).

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The mission of the Wild Salmon Center is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim.Image/photo credits (from top): Bristol Bay Forever tile (courtesy Bristol Bay Forever); World War II-era box culvert on Wa’atch Creek, Makah Reservation (Nicole Rasmussen/Wild Salmon Center); Headwaters: Side Channel tile (Wild Salmon Center); Wild Salmon Center Oregon Senior Wild Fish Manager Kirk Blaine (Patrick Perry); Bears with salmon (Alamy).

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