Kitsap County receives salmon grant recovery funding

OLYMPIA — Sen. Phil Rockefeller, D-Kitsap County, announced today that Kitsap County has received a total of $1,055,641 from the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board to protect and restore salmon populations and their habitats.

The funds will be allocated as follows:

• $460,000 for protecting Pilot Point
• $354,026 for mid Puget Sound fisheries enhancement group, Barker Creek Estuary Culvert replacement
• $125,000 for surveying Chico Creek Estuary
• $101,315 to the Suquamish Tribe for assessing fish use of the west sound near shore
• $15,300 for completion of the pre-purchase tasks for Chico Estuary

As prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5372 which created the Puget Sound Partnership, an agency dedicated to protecting Puget Sound, Rockefeller said that these funds will compliment the recovery of vital habitat in Puget Sound, to the benefit of both people and salmon.

"I'm delighted with the award of this grant money," said Sen. Rockefeller. "It will go towards work such as planting trees along streams to cool the water for salmon, replacing culverts that prevent salmon from migrating to spawning habitat, and restoring entire floodplains. I'm especially pleased that the Barker Creek Estuary is getting a much needed boost."

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