2011 Salmon Monitoring Program: A Great Year for Salmon!
The Bainbridge Island Watershed Council, in partnership with the City of Bainbridge Island and the Suquamish Tribe, is excited to conclude its 7th consecutive year monitoring spawning salmon returns on the Island!
Program goals and objectives:
The goal of this program is to monitor returns of adult salmon to our local island streams. Volunteers do weekly observations on a fixed length of stream to look for adult salmon, carcasses, and spawning activities. This data is collected and maintained by the City and the Watershed Council and helps us better understand what species and what numbers of fish are using our streams and better understand how to protect potential spawning habitat.
Program goals and objectives:
The goal of this program is to monitor returns of adult salmon to our local island streams. Volunteers do weekly observations on a fixed length of stream to look for adult salmon, carcasses, and spawning activities. This data is collected and maintained by the City and the Watershed Council and helps us better understand what species and what numbers of fish are using our streams and better understand how to protect potential spawning habitat.
First Salmon Siting of 2011!
Ryan Ericson, the City's shoreline planner, managed to capture our first adult salmon sighting of the season, and not what OR where you'd expect it! A beautiful adult Chinook salmon at the mouth of Ravine Creek, which flows right under Winslow Way near Highway 305, and into Eagle Harbor. Chinook don't spawn in our streams here on Bainbridge, but this guy or gal is likely a stray looking for a new spot and wandered into our neck of the woods!
Salmon return to Bainbridge streams to spawn and feed our Island foodwebs.
Returning coho on Springridge Creek, Fall 2011.
We had an excellent year, with sitings of adult coho returning to three of our monitored streams: Springridge Creek (tributary to Fletcher Bay), Manzanita Creek (tributary to Manzanita Bay) and Woodward Creek (tributary to Manitou Beach). Stay tuned for more information as we process the new data this winter and spring
We had an excellent year, with sitings of adult coho returning to three of our monitored streams: Springridge Creek (tributary to Fletcher Bay), Manzanita Creek (tributary to Manzanita Bay) and Woodward Creek (tributary to Manitou Beach). Stay tuned for more information as we process the new data this winter and spring
