The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund supports the restoration of salmon species.Improvements to water quality and instream flow.Removal and modification of dams that obstruct salmon migration.

Population conservation efforts include:.Degraded water quality from agricultural and logging practices.Habitat loss from dam construction and urban development.

Changes in ocean and climatic conditions.

Due to their unique two-year life cycle, returns of pink salmon are much larger in odd-numbered years.

The status of pink salmon on the West coast is unknown.

Summary stock assessment information can be found on Stock SMART. According to the 2017 Hugh Smith and 2021 Auke Creek and Berners River stock assessments, these stocks are not overfished and not subject to overfishing. There are 3 indicator stocks of coho salmon that are used to determine the status of the assemblage these indicator stocks are Coho salmon - Auke Creek, Coho salmon - Berners River, and Coho salmon - Hugh Smith Lake.

The Alaska Coho Salmon Assemblage consists of coho salmon, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, and chum salmon throughout southeast Alaska.Pink salmon are the most abundant Pacific salmon.

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