Fisherman Bay is a complex, degraded estuarine and salt marsh mosaic that historically supported herring spawning and migrating Chinook salmon. KWIAHT has been engaged in a multi-faceted restoration strategy since 2010 that includes recreating the former stream channel to the bay to reduce salinity; working with the county and local planning board to build streetside storm water bioswales to reduce contaminant loading of the bay; helping private landowners restore salt marsh and beach habitat along highly eroded or armored shorelines; and re-opening the southern end of the bay to seasonal tidal flushing to import sand, reduce fines, and replenish oxygen. ESRP funding is sought for the feasibility stage of the "breach and bridge" element of this watershed-scale strategy. Other elements of our strategy have already been partly funded by private foundations and homeowners. Fisherman Bay is the principal commercial and recreational waterfront of Lopez Island with marinas, summer boat moorage, and most of the island's tourism businesses. In addition to restoring processes inside the bay that will rebuild eelgrass and herring populations, and attracts salmon and seabirds that have disappeared from the bay since the 1960s, our restoration strategy will save this important asset from rapidly silt accumulation, toxic algal blooms and seasonal hypoxia. For the bridge-and-breach element of our strategy, all anticipated construction would be located on lands already owned by the state and the county along Bayshore Road.