Salmon Monitoring and Research
The Watershed Council has been involved with salmon monitoring and research to better understand and steward our Island’s salmon populations since 2005.
The Bainbridge Salmon Monitoring Program conducted monitoring for returning spawning adult salmon and instream juvenile salmon every fall from 2005 to 2023. This program is now being coordinated by the City, and you can visit their website to learn more about this ongoing work, and sign up to volunteer! This citizen science program trains volunteers to observe and collect data on abundance, distribution, and species of salmon that are returning to our Island streams to spawn. This program typically monitors four streams on Bainbridge Island (see figure to right for current monitored streams. Volunteers conduct fish and redd (the nests in which salmon lay their eggs) surveys weekly for a two-month period each fall.
We also conduct restoration and research activities to evaluate and support salmon populations. Read more about our work in this area below.
More information about salmon monitoring and conservation activities
Adult salmon monitoring data
Click below to look at the observations of returning adult salmon (predominantly coho) to our streams
Cooper Creek Salmon Restoration
Click below to learn more about a special project to return chum salmon to Cooper Creek at the head of Eagle Harbor that ran 2009-2012.
Mac’s Dam Creek eDNA project
Click below to learn more about a special project to evaluate the presence of fish in Mac’s Dam Creek prior to removal of fish passage barriers in this stream system.