Posted: April 13, 2025
My Edmonds News
Scene in Edmonds: Salmon fry released in Yost Park
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Coho fry released in Shell Creek
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:
Yost Park: Volunteers help save Shell Creek salmon
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”Edmonds Rotary, Perrinville neighbors help repopulate streams with salmon
by Joe Scordino
April 7th, 2025
Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work
By William Alexander
March 30, 2025
My Edmonds News
Editor’s note: This letter to Mayor Mike Rosen is being republished here at the author’s request. We did ask the city last week if they had a response but so far have not received one.
Dear Mayor Rosen:
Continue reading “Letter to the editor: A request to continue Edmonds Marsh work”Bolstering Shell Creek’s salmon population
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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Stream Team report: Record number of salmon in Shell Creek
Posted Sunday, January 12, 2025 6:12 pm
By Joe Scordino
Edmonds Stream Team
Maija Jinneman observing a female chum salmon protecting her eggs laid in the gravel. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino) 
Meadowdale High students – Maija Jinneman, Aspen Spivey, Maya LaBelle, Emma Roberts. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino) 
Meadowdale Beach Park visitors responded to this sign with photos and videos. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino) 
Edge of this bridge was modified to provide a salmon passage channel after the underside of the bridge was blocked by sediment, (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino) 
Avery Bergan helps salmon passage in her backyard by clearing debris that washed into creek during rainstorm. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino) 
High scchool students collecting data on stream conditions and salmon .occurrence. (Photo courtesy Joe Scordino) 
Maya LaBelle examining a chum salmon that died before it could lay its eggs in the creek. This “pre-spawn mortality’ may have been caused by toxic tire dust (6PPDq) that enters the creek through storm drains on roads.
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”2024 surveys show record number of salmon in Shell Creek
— Story and photos by Joe Scordino
Project leader, Edmonds Stream Team
January 1, 2025
The Edmonds Stream Team completed its annual adult salmon surveys in Edmonds’ Shell Creek and Lunds Gulch Creek (located in Meadowdale Beach Park) in December. The Stream Team documented the highest number of chum salmon spawners in November 2024 since surveys began in Shell Creek in 2017.
Continue reading “2024 surveys show record number of salmon in Shell Creek”Letter to Shell Creek residents
By Joe Scordino
November 23, 2024
Shell Creek Residents:
As many of you have noticed in your creek, we are having a banner year in the numbers of adult chum salmon returning to Shell Creek.
I want to THANK YOU for allowing the Edmonds Stream Team to continually access your property in the fall to collect data on the salmon run. We’ll be continuing our salmon surveys into mid-December when most of our observations will probably shift to just examining dead salmon to collect data on their spawning success (we’re currently still seeing ‘new’ arrivals as well as dead spawned-out salmon).
Continue reading “Letter to Shell Creek residents”Letter to Edmonds Stream Team
From Joe Scordino
November 23, 2024
Students – Linked below is a news article on the Edmonds Stream Team “coming to the rescue” to resolve a fish passage problem for spawning salmon in Shell Creek.
The stream habitat and salmon abundance data collected by students was used to justify an emergency permit from the WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife to make changes to a blockage DURING the salmon run. Normally, such instream work would not be allowed during salmon migration – – but I had the data (collected by students) to justify the emergency action.
So… THANK YOU for participating in the Stream Team. You have made a big difference for our local salmon population!
It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park
Posted: November 10, 2024
By Joe Scordino
The Edmonds Stream Team, working with adult and student volunteers from Meadowdale and Edmonds-Woodway High Schools, has been surveying local creeks for salmon – – and the team reports many adult salmon are returning to Shell and Lunds Gulch Creeks.
Continue reading “It’s salmon ‘SEEson’ in Meadowdale Beach Park”Future stewards lend a hand to baby salmon
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.
