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The Bainbridge Island Watershed Council works on projects and actions that protect and improve the condition of the island's watersheds, shorelines, and related wildlife habitats through volunteer stewardship, educational outreach, and advising the city government on key issues. PLEASE NOTE: when the watershed council moved their page to this website, an individual or group took the webpage name we used to use, biwatershedcouncil. That website is NOT our website any more. We do not know who this group is, but if you do, please let us know, because that person has not responded to our request to make it clear that they are not the same entity. Looking Back at 2018We had a very productive year, full of events and partnerships. Highlights include:
Bainbridge Island Salmon Monitoring Program
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The Bainbridge Island Watershed Council has completed their 14th annual spawning salmon monitoring season this year. This program monitors four streams on Bainbridge Island – Cooper Creek at the head of Eagle Harbor; two segments of Springbrook Creek; Manzanita Creek; and Murden Creek- for returning adult spawning and juvenile salmon. Volunteers conduct fish and redd (the nests in which salmon lay their eggs) surveys weekly for a two-month period each fall. The vast majority of the returning adult salmon in the data below
are coho. Cooper Creek is the exception as it is a primarily chum
salmon-bearing stream as a result of supplementation work the Watershed
Council did in partnership with the Suquamish Tribe from 2009 to 2012 to
restore salmon to this stream from . This was an extraordinarily low return year, consistent with trends for the West Sound region, and likely was a result of very low water levels making stream habitat difficult to access when fish were ready to return. We documented no adult fish on Murden Creek or Cooper Creek, only egg remnants from what was probably a preyed on spawning adult in Springbrook Creek, and a few returning spawning fish in Manzanita this year. No redds (areas where fish deposit their eggs) were observed this year ![]()
Salmon monitoring is an annual event, and we are always looking for volunteers interested in participating in this program. If you are interested in joining us for next year's monitoring, please reach out to us at
. Thanks! MINUTES AND AGENDASOur next meeting is scheduled for September 2019, Date TBD, 7 - 8:30pm at the Marge Williams Center. Have a great summer in our watersheds!
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