Sound Salmon Solutions

Mission

Our mission is to restore and protect wild salmon through state-of-the-art habitat restoration, interactive education, and hands-on stewardship, ensuring a future with salmon for generations to come.

Description

Founded in 1990, SSS is one of 14 Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups (RFEG)'s in Washington State.  Our purpose is to support and enhance natural salmon populations through habitat restoration, education, and stewardship.  We empower communities to be stewards of their watershed by connecting individuals of all ages to the tangible actions we can all take to improve watershed health. We partner with other organizations, indigenous tribes, municipalities, and private landowners to advocate and maximize salmon recovery in our local watersheds. 

We believe in creating and sustaining a community devoted to salmon recovery through collaboration, engagement, education, and celebration. We believe people make lifelong connections to their watersheds through joyful, meaningful work for a common cause. We believe everyone can connect and contribute to salmon recovery in their own way no matter their age, skills, interests, background, and ability. 

Recognition

In 2025, we restored 30,389 linear feet of salmon spawning habitat and planted 10,071 native trees over 95 acres in the Stillaguamish, Snohomish, and South Island County watersheds. Our education team provided engaging, hands-on learning for 6,350 youth, and connected with 2,150 individuals at community events. We taught Salmon in the Schools to 3rd to 5th classes in 22 elementary schools, 6th graders at Haller Middle School, and biology students at 3 high schools. We successfully raised and released 80,000 coho salmon into 9 tributaries within the Puget Sound and Lake Washington Watersheds. We have trained staff and launched fish passage barrier assessments, and will soon begin removing fish passage barriers to ensure our salmon can return home.  We are grateful for our 200 volunteers who contributed nearly 2,000 hours to our hatchery, restoration, and education programs, working alongside our staff to save our salmon.  These accomplishments were in large part thanks to supporters like you. 

We appreciate your generosity as we continue to promote, support, and realize salmon recovery within the Stillaguamish, Snohomish, and South Island County Watersheds. As we enter our 36th year of operation, your contribution will directly support our salmon recovery efforts as we continue expanding our programs and our impact for the future of salmon.