The goal of this restoration planning project was to explore the potential for reconfiguring and restoring Shaw Island’s Neck Point tidal lagoon and associated pocket beaches to recover lost intertidal habitat and improve prey conditions for forage fish and outmigrating juvenile salmon. In 1950, fill was placed over the historic lagoon and the northern spit to create an isthmus and roadway between Neck Point and Shaw Island. The pocket beaches and historic lagoon habitats at Shaw Island’s Neck Point ranked within the high priority fish use shoreforms and regions (between highest and moderate) based on the medium presence probabilities for juvenile Chinook salmon and rearing forage fish based on the Beamer and Fresh (2012) models, as well as the suitable forage fish spawning habitat. Juvenile chinook and chum salmon were documented at the south pocket beach by Beamer and Fresh 2012. In addition to the fish use factors, multiple additional factors make the restoration of the Neck Point Lagoon a priority action including the uniqueness of the shoretype, previous work in the area, landowner and San Juan County Public Works support, and the opportunity provided by the need to address public infrastructure at this location in the future. Project objectives completed in this first phase included: feasibility studies, conceptual design work and community/partner meetings to advance this site toward restoration implementation.