This project consisted of a three year assessment of nearshore habitat usage by outmigrating juvenile Hood Canal Summer Chum Salmon. During the first two years of the project Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) staff collected data at nearshore sites throughout the ESU of the species, including the Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet, and the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca. This data established general outmigration patterns at the landscape scale (ESU wide) and highlighted differences in the amount of habitat usage by region, with the Hood Canal having higher fish densities than the Straits region. The third year of sampling focused on a finer spatial scale and assessed habitat usage by outmigrating juvenile Hood Canal summer chum in the Dabob Bay and Mid Hood Canal subregion. Data collected in the third year was used to construct habitat usage models which showed distinct differences in habitat preference between fall run juvenile chum salmon and summer run juvenile salmon. Results indicate summer run chum  have significantly greater use of  non-natal embayment systems and less use of large river (often natal) estuary habitat, while the fall run life history of chum showed significantly greater usage of large river estuary habitat.