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By Dave Teitzel
September 29, 2019
Shell Creek is a natural, spring-fed creek that originates near the eastern boundary of Yost Park, a large city-owned park in Edmonds, Washington that has been preserved in a largely natural state.
Continue reading “Shell Creek Waterfall Fish Blockage”April 30, 2025
By Lynda V. Mapes
Seattle Times environment reporter
Who knew that baby salmon were such explorers?
The long-held understanding that baby salmon emerge from the streams where they hatched to head out to sea actually is missing a far more complex story — and a far more interesting one, scientists explain in a new paper.
Continue reading “Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows”Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News
On Saturday, April 12th, Megan Moran from Sound Salmon Solutions and Joe Scordino released several thousand Coho fry with the help of volunteers and local residents. These “baby” salmon were released in Yost Park near Olympic Avenue and near Holy Rosary parish in Edmonds.
It was great fun.
Here are a few photos:
Posted Sunday, April 13, 2025
By Joe Scordino, Stream Team Project Leader
A large crowd gathered at Yost Park to help release several salmon at a time. They used clear cups so everyone could see the baby salmon. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino)
Continue reading “Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon”By Joe Scordino
For the Beacon
Posted 3/20/25
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 baby chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. The Suquamish Tribe donated the salmon fry to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
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By Joe Scordino, Project Leader
Edmonds Stream Team
March 12, 2025
Photos by Clint Wright, Joe Scordino, and John Brock
The Edmonds Stream Team released 5,000 “baby” chum salmon into lower Shell Creek on Monday. These chum salmon “fry” were donated by the Suquamish Tribe to help the community effort to bolster salmon populations in local creeks that flow directly to Puget Sound.
Continue reading “Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population”Posted Sunday, January 12, 2025 6:12 pm
By Joe Scordino
Edmonds Stream Team
There’s good news coming from the Edmonds Stream Team after completion of its annual adult salmon surveys last month in Edmonds’ Shell Creek and Lund’s Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Beach Park.
Continue reading “Stream Team report: Record number of salmon in Shell Creek”By Joe Scordino
November 2, 2024
Mayor Rosen;
As you may know, this is the time of year when I’m out with Edmonds Stream Team volunteers (students and adults) in/along the “salmon-bearing” creeks in/near Edmonds (i.e., Shell Creek and Lunds Gulch Creek in Meadowdale Park) to survey adult salmon returns and spawning. Besides the salmon occurrence data, we also collect habitat condition data (and have been doing that each fall since 2017).
Continue reading “Letter to Mayor Rosen – THE REST OF THE STORY – Excess sediment in Shell Creek impacting salmon”For years, locals have begged the city to remove fish barriers in Perrinville Creek. A federal grant could help.
by Ta’Leah Van Sistine
Saturday, September 21, 2024 6:30am
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/give-them-a-chance-the-fight-to-bring-salmon-back-to-edmonds-stream/
My Edmonds News
Posted: May 27, 2024
Last week marked the final releases this year of “baby” coho salmon from Edmonds’ Willow Creek Salmon Hatchery into local streams to help the salmon populations in Puget Sound. On hand to help were community volunteers including future stewards of the environment and even Edmonds Mayor Mike Rosen.
By Joe Scordino
Posted: August 26, 2023
First it was Perrinville Creek and now it is Shell Creek that is losing its natural functions and salmon habitat — this time because of neglect and inaction by city administration in Edmonds’ Yost Park.
In the case of Perrinville Creek, the loss of salmon is due to both inaction to implement a watershed restoration plan (as promised by Mayor Nelson in a press release over two years ago), and an apparent illegal action the city took in January 2021 to totally block salmon access to Perrinville Creek.
Continue reading “Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?”Posted: March 5, 2019
Link to My Edmonds News article
The Edmonds-Woodway High School’s Students Saving Salmon Club has received well-deserved press for their restoration work in Shell Creek. But there is another important person working behind the scenes:
Continue reading “Scene in Edmonds: At work on Shell Creek “Posted: January 14, 2019
Link to My Edmonds News article
Students from Edmonds-Woodway and Meadowdale high schools are helping restore and enhance local salmon populations.
Continue reading “Students Saving Salmon help restore local salmon populations”Posted: May 20, 2018
Link to My Edmonds News Article
Edmonds-Woodway High School’s Students Saving Salmon Club were out in Shell Creek on Saturday releasing juvenile coho salmon in Yost Park, along Sprague Avenue, near Holy Rosary Church, and along Brookmere Drive.
The students netted about 1,000 small salmon from the pond at the Willow Creek Hatchery and moved them into their natural habitat in Shell Creek. Streamside residents and others joined the students in trying to spot the small salmon swimming free in the creek after release.
Students worked with Walter Thompson, Trout Unlimited’s volunteer hatchery manager, to help raise these coho salmon from eggs that were brought to the Willow Creek Hatchery in December 2017. Once the eggs hatched, the small salmon were placed in the hatchery pond in February, and students participated with other community volunteers in daily feedings of the 50,000 small salmon in the pond. After growing to about 2-3 inches long in the hatchery, the small coho salmon are released to streams where they will live until next spring when they begin migration to the ocean. Coho salmon will grow in the ocean for two years and return as adults to these streams to spawn.
EWHS Students Saving Salmon club has been working to restore salmon runs in Edmonds through water quality monitoring, stream surveys, habitat restoration, and bolstering declining salmon runs through release of juvenile salmon into Edmonds streams.
“Shell Creek does have good water quality and habitat for salmon, but adult coho salmon cannot reach the upper areas of Shell Creek to spawn due to obstacles in the creek such as a 5-foot man-made waterfall located near Glen Street and 7th Avenue,” said club advisor Joe Scordino, a retired fisheries biologist. “The juvenile coho salmon placed in Shell Creek will grow in the good habitat and return back to the creek as adults to spawn in the lower areas of the creek thus bolstering the population. “
Students hope to continue enhancing the wild salmon population with juvenile releases until such time that passage obstacles can be removed and the natural population increases, Scordino said.
