Counting fish: small and smaller
A mixture of small and larger baby salmon were found and documented on May 12, 2021 at the SR 529 Steamboat Slough mitigation site near Marysville, WA.
Counting hundreds of small and wiggly juvenile fish is a group effort. WSDOT biologists and Tulalip Tribes researchers take a look and measure the salmon and shrimp caught during high tide at the Steamboat Slough mitigation site on May 12, 2021.
Briefly trapping and counting these fish helps give us a good idea of how successful we've been to restore a salmon nursery area that had been blocked off from the slough near Marysville decades ago.
The dike that blocked water from reaching this area was breached in 2019. Improvements to the nearby I-5/SR 529 interchange will result in the loss of some habitat and this restored estuary will offset that loss.
The early counts show our mitigation effort has been a great success. Fish returned almost immediately and began making it a home again where juvenile fish can rest and gain strength before journeying to the ocean.
Counting fish: small and smaller
A mixture of small and larger baby salmon were found and documented on May 12, 2021 at the SR 529 Steamboat Slough mitigation site near Marysville, WA.
Counting hundreds of small and wiggly juvenile fish is a group effort. WSDOT biologists and Tulalip Tribes researchers take a look and measure the salmon and shrimp caught during high tide at the Steamboat Slough mitigation site on May 12, 2021.
Briefly trapping and counting these fish helps give us a good idea of how successful we've been to restore a salmon nursery area that had been blocked off from the slough near Marysville decades ago.
The dike that blocked water from reaching this area was breached in 2019. Improvements to the nearby I-5/SR 529 interchange will result in the loss of some habitat and this restored estuary will offset that loss.
The early counts show our mitigation effort has been a great success. Fish returned almost immediately and began making it a home again where juvenile fish can rest and gain strength before journeying to the ocean.