Wild Salmon Center

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

May 14, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$9,121,582

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

2) North America ProgramCompleted the science based report, "Bristol Bay's Wild Salmon Ecosystems and the Pebble Mine: Key Considerations for a Large-Scale Mine Proposal." The report describes the ecological, economic, and cultural concerns raised by the development of the Pebble copper, gold, and molybdenum deposit in the headwaters of the Bristol Bay basin, which is home to North America's most abundant wild salmon fishery and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.(Continued on Schedule O)(Continued from Page 2) The U.S. Senate reintroduced the Pacific Salmon Stronghold Conservation Act, a bill WSC helped author and is championing, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation reported the bill to the Senate floor. The companion bill is expected to be reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012.Completed documentation justifying new shoreline protection for 73 river miles in the Sol Duc, Bogachiel, and Calawah rivers as part of the Shoreline Management Act's 30-year update.Conducted and submitted technical reviews of Washington State coastal hatchery programs to state, federal and tribal governments requesting Wild Salmonid Management Zone designation in the Sol Duc and Clearwater rivers.Worked with over 100 stakeholders from a regional salmon group, Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Partnership, to draft a salmon-based conservation action plan for four million acres of the Washington Coast.Worked to institutionalize the "salmon stronghold" approach in Washington, Oregon, and California and identified investment priorities and projects that demonstrate this approach. For example, WSC partnered with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop a new holistic salmon conservation plan for the Oregon coast.Won commitment from the Oregon Governor to strengthen protection of North Coast State Forests. The governor maintained the current Greatest Permanent Value (GPV) rule and directed the Board of Forestry to establish permanent conservation areas in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests.

Activity 3

3) The State of the SalmonThe State of the Salmon (SoS) convened a small international workshop with researchers from Alaska, Russia, and Japan on evaluating the extent and impacts of hatchery strays, with particular emphasis on pink and chum salmon. The expected result is an active international collaboration to develop a predictive model and risk assessment tool that can help managers assess and reduce impacts of hatchery straying on wild salmon. (Continued on Schedule O)(Continued from Page 2) The SoS-hosted the conference Salmon in a Changing Climate, which highlighted the importance of maintaining diversity, productivity, and resilience of wild salmon populations in the face of climate-mediated environmental change.SoS organized an international workshop on taimen in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology. The workshop drew taimen experts and applied conservationists from Asia, Europe and North America to focus attention on threatened taimen and contribute toward a global IUCN freshwater biodiversity assessment.A total of 25 scientific papers authored or edited by SoS staff were published in 2011 or will in published in 2012. Twenty-three papers, representing the proceedings of the May 2010 SoS conference Ecological Interactions between Wild & Hatchery Salmon, will be included in a special issue of the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes, for which Pete Rand, SoS Senior Conservation Biologist, is serving as guest editor. In addition, two papers on Sakhalin taimen by Pete Rand and US, Russian, and Japanese scientific colleagues were published in peer reviewed journals.The Bonneville Power Administration, a major funder of salmon restoration and monitoring in the Pacific Northwest, has formally adopted monitoringmethods.org and is requiring all of their grantees to use it. This is a significant advancement that will improve the quality and usability of monitoring data for many years to come. The monitoringmethods.org website was developed through a partnership between SoS and the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership.

Filer

EIN

94-3166095