Posted: April 13, 2025
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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”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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Press release: Bolstering Shell Creek’s Salmon Population
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”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!
Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon
My Edmonds News
Posted: November 20, 2024
It is salmon migration season and significant numbers of chum salmon are actively making their way up Shell Creek. As is always the case, they need to pass many obstacles along the way. This year they were presented with a new and unexpected challenge.
Continue reading “Scene in Edmonds: Finding passage for salmon”‘Give them a chance’: The fight to bring salmon back to Edmonds stream
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/
Reader view: Can we stop the demise of Edmonds salmon streams?
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?”