“There’s no way this trajectory can hold up, right?” we asked ourselves as we narrowly passed our all time record for live fish earlier in the season than we’d usually see peak numbers. The heavy rain continued and so did the trajectory as Tuesday’s survey smashed our record of live fish with over 1500 live […]

What a week! Thank you surveyors for braving a long rainy survey this Tuesday. Our numbers already exceed last year’s with an astounding 503 live Chum salmon spotted on Tuesday. That’s the most we’ve ever seen in a single survey. The salmon have made their way past all of the dams and have been seen

The 2024 salmon return at Carkeek Park has begun! And with the salmon come the salmon surveys. Thanks all volunteers who have helped out already this year whether that be the pre-survey stream flagging work or the surveys themselves. We’re fortunate to have many enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers helping with our programs. This year started

We will be holding our last Salmon Walk of the season in Carkeek Park prior to the release of our last batch of salmon for the season. These are the approximately 4,000 fry that were raised from eggs by 21 schools as part of the Salmon in the Schools – Seattle (SISS) program.  We will

We will be releasing our current batch of 16,500 chum salmon fry about 8pm on Friday, April 26th. Everyone is welcome. So come on down and help us send our salmon fry on their way to the Sound. If you come a bit early, you can feed the salmon fry and maybe even make a salmon