Salmon Watchers Program

Volunteer for a unique northwest experience

The Salmon Watcher Program trains volunteers to identify and record species and numbers of spawning salmonids in streams in the Lake Washington Watershed.

The Salmon Watcher training sessions for 2009 are complete. Thanks to all the people who attended and are now out there salmon watching! If you would like to be put on the list so you are notified next year to be trained, please contact Jennifer Vanderhoof, Ecologist.

If you would like to see watch sites established in your area, you can use our site mapper.

If you would like to find out more about getting out and seeing fish this fall, volunteering, or learning more about salmon-friendly living, check out Fall For Salmon.

Attention! Special Request! If you are a volunteer and see coho prespawned mortalities (like we discuss in training), please email Nathaniel Scholz, NOAA, at Nathaniel.Scholz@noaa.gov. Learn more about coho pre-spawning mortalities including a video (external link) showing normal and affected fish.

This program is conducted in cooperation with the King County Water and Land Resources Division, Bellevue Stream Team, Redmond Stream Team, and the cities of Seattle, Bothell, Kirkland, Renton, Woodinville, and the Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust, with support from the King Conservation District.