| Organization | San Juan County Lead Entity for Salmon Recovery |
| Sponsor | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation |
| Status | Completed |
| Schedule | Start Date: 10/1/2003 End Date: 9/6/2005 |
| Category | Category: Restoration |
| Organization | San Juan County Lead Entity for Salmon Recovery |
| Sponsor | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation |
| Status | Completed |
| Schedule | Start Date: 10/1/2003 End Date: 9/6/2005 |
| Category | Category: Restoration |
| Type | Date | Funding Org | Funding Program | Match | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requested | 06/23/2003 | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation | Match | $30,000.00 | |
| Requested | 06/23/2003 | Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) | Salmon State Projects | $150,000.00 | |
| Allocated | 06/24/2003 | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation | Match | $30,000.00 | |
| Allocated | 06/24/2003 | Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) | Salmon State Projects | $150,000.00 | |
| Spent | 09/06/2005 | Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation | Match | -$30,000.00 | |
| Spent | 09/06/2005 | Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) | Salmon State Projects | -$150,000.00 |
| Grant Project Agreement Totals | Proposed | Requested | Allocated | Spent | Balance |
| $3,150,570.00 | $180,000.00 | $180,000.00 | $180,000.00 | $0.00 |
| Type | Date | Funding Org | Funding Program | Match | Amount |
|---|
| Other Funding Totals | Proposed | Requested | Allocated | Spent | Balance |
| Grand Totals | Proposed | Requested | Allocated | Spent | Balance |
| Chinook-Pop (ESU): | Chinook-Puget Sound, Threatened |
| Chum-Pop (ESU): | Chum-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Not Warranted |
| Coho-Pop (ESU): | Coho-Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia, Species of Concern |
| County: | San Juan |
| HUC12: | Haro Strait-Strait of Georgia (171100030700) |
| HUC8: | San Juan Islands (17110003) |
| Lead Entity Area: | San Juan County |
| Legislative District: | 40 |
| Pink-Pop (ESU): | Pink-Odd Year, Not Warranted |
| Puget Sound Action Areas: | San Juan Islands |
| Salmon Recovery Regions: | Puget Sound |
| Steelhead-Pop (ESU): | Steelhead-Puget Sound, Threatened |
| Watershed Administrative Unit: | Lopez Island |
| Watershed Administrative Unit: | San Juan Island |
| WRIA: | San Juan |
| APPLICATION | FINAL | ||||
| RESTORATION METRICS | |||||
Miles of Stream and/or Shoreline Treated or Protected (C.0.b) | 0.00 | mi | 0.00 | mi | |
| Estuarine / Nearshore Project | |||||
*Total Amount Of Estuarine / Nearshore Acres Treated (C.9.b) | 50.00 | acres | 67.00 | acres | |
| Debris removal (C.9.n.1) | |||||
Acres Treated for debris removal (C.9.n.2) | |||||
Map notes: Yellow dots are removed nets. Blue dots are remaining nets.
As of 4/1/2014, this project removed 232 additional nets from WRIA2 restoring an additional 46.3 acres. For a total of 331 acres being restored.
-Restore marine habitat for multi-species; eliminate impediments to salmon migration; eliminate direct species mortality from derelict fishing gear.
-The Initiative has removed 1714 nets covering 250.7 acres from the San Juan Islands as of December 31, 2010. The Initiative completed surveying all historical fishing grounds in the San Juan Islands for derelict nets in March, 2011. There are an estimated 198 derelict nets still remaining in shallow sub-tidal high prioirty areas of WRIA2. These nets are entangling an estimated 62 mammals, 1,096 birds, 3,460 fish every year they remain derelict. They are degrading approximately 20 acres of important marine habitat: high rock reek habitat, kelp beds, and salmon migration corridors.
-Removal of derelict nets in WRIA2 was partially funded in 2009 by NOAA Restoration Center with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Matching funds were provided by a variety of sources. The Northwest Straits Initiative employed four removal vessels working full time throughout Puget Sound to complete the project in eighteen months. Removal of derelict fishing nets was focused in high priority areas. High prioirty areas include areas with current and historical high fishing pressure that coincides with sea bottom obstruction likely to snag nets.
-Derelict fishing nets have been documented to kill salmon during migration. One removed net contained 150 dead salmon. Derelict fishing nets have been observed to inhibit the trophic energy exchange processes of marine habitat by covering habitat, impeding access to habitat, collecting fine sediment, and scouring surfaces of algae, plant, and sessile organisms. The Northwest Straits Initiative has removed over 3,860 derelict fishing nets from Puget Sound since 2002 and has documented the deadly effects of this gear on over 223 marine species, including Chinook, sockeye, and chum salmon, rockfish, lingcod, sea lions, harbor porpoise, harbor seals, otters, cormorants, grebes, gulls, mergansers, rockfish, lingcod, shark, octopus, and crab.
