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What’s a Chinook salmon?
A long journey home against harrowing odds, all for the sake of family. Maybe this sounds like your travel plan this week, but it’s also true for Chinook salmon! These remarkable fish spend years in the sea before beginning their legendary migrations from the ocean to the home rivers where they were born!

Where can they be found?
Chinook salmon range from California to Alaska, and even as far across the Pacific as Northern Japan. The important question isn’t so much where they can be found as where they’re missing: While many populations are healthy and plentiful, Chinook salmon in the Northwest have been decimated by dams on the rivers they call home!

Okay, so?
As many of us are working up an appetite for a feast, the Salish sea is full of some very hungry orcas. Southern Resident orcas depend on Chinook salmon for survival. Their fates are tied together, and it’s up to us to stop these species from disappearing!

How can I help?

The good news is there's a plan to end the salmon famine! We're working with regional leaders too restore the river systems that salmon and orcas both depend on for survival. Your support will help us bring back the bounty of salmon to the Northwest!