Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group

Mission

Engaging our community in restoring salmon and keeping our watersheds healthy for future generations.

Our Urgent Ask

Last year, funding for our AmeriCorps program was cut, decimating our ability to offer educational programs like Salmon in the Schools that children around the Skagit Watershed have revered for over 35 years. You helped us raise over $25,000 to fund internships to support our education programs for another year. This was a HUGE feat!

This year, funding cuts have continued to affect our ability to offer our education programs. These programs encourage students to see themselves as a critical part of our community and our effort to keep waterways healthy, both within the Skagit Watershed and beyond. There has never been a more important time to teach children about the difference they can make in their community through environmental stewardship, and we need YOUR help doing this. 

Will you help us raise $10,000 to keep our education programs afloat in the 2026-2027 school year?

If your business is looking for sponsorship opportunities, you can be featured on a fish tank at a local school participating in Salmon in the Schools.  Please click here for more information. 

Organization Description:

For over 35 years, Skagit Fisheries has worked with our community to bring back the plentiful salmon runs of years past.

Why is it crucial to restore habitat for the Skagit River? The Skagit River is the only Washington River that is home to all 5 species of Pacific salmon, and it also supports the largest runs of endangered Chinook salmon, the main food source for the Pacific Northwest's iconic Southern Resident Killer Whales. Ensuring healthy habitat for salmon also means clean water for families, more habitat for birds and wildlife we love, and more beautiful places for our community to recreate. Your investment in volunteer habitat programs helps keep the Skagit Valley healthy for our entire community.

Over the last 35 years, support from donors has helped:

• Engage over 24,600 children in hands-on environmental science education programs learning about salmon and the importance of watershed environments
• Complete over 22 miles of instream habitat restoration projects
• Open over 105 miles of habitat for salmon and steelhead by removing 77 culvert crossings that blocked fish migration
• Plant over 525,000 native plants along more than 61 miles of streams and shorelines, improving water quality, providing shade, and a place for young salmon to hide from predators
• Build over 57,000 feet of livestock fencing to improve water quality and reduce bank erosion
• Reach and involve over 132,600 volunteers and community members, who contributed over 234,300 volunteer hours to improving the Skagit watershed

Now is the time to show your support and continue to invest in future habitat restoration and education programs. Your support helps deliver education programs to schools, develop new restoration projects, engage more community members, and shows you care for our watersheds, our salmon, and our community.

As we celebrate over 35 years of success, we invite you to reinvest in these community based efforts anda  consider a GiveBIG donation to help keep the Skagit Valley healthy for salmon and a beautiful place for all of us.