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2025 Salish Sea Marine Survival Project Symposium at the WA-BC AFS Conference
The 2023 workshop was well received and reinforced the appetite for and value of continuing to foster transboundary collaboration. In addition to more immediate workshop outcomes, the next gathering was planned for 2025 in British Columbia.
As it happened, the 2025 American Fisheries Society’s Washington-British Columbia chapter meeting was being held in Vancouver, B.C., and presented an ideal venue to host another SSMSP gathering. Together with organizers of the Salmon Ocean Ecology Meeting, we co-hosted a symposium titled Salmon Ocean Ecology: Cross-border connections in the Salish Sea & Beyond at the 2025 meeting of the Washington-British Columbia chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS). The symposium, held March 11-13, 2025, served as both the 2nd post-Salish Sea Marine Survival Project gathering and the 24th Salmon Ocean Ecology Meeting (SOEM). Given that many researchers with ties to the SSMSP are also part of the SOEM community, we felt this avenue for the workshop was an opportunity to come together and share knowledge about the current state of salmon marine ecosystems and focus on advances made in the science and implementation of SSMSP findings, as well as identifying opportunities for further research, action, and transboundary collaboration.
This workshop-style symposium featured themes on all aspects of salmon marine ecology, including growth; models, tools and data; climate and oceanography; food webs and predation; movement and migratory behavior; growth, stress, health and survival; and survival trends and forecasts. To access the 2025 Symposium Summary Report, click here.
Many thanks to the WA-BC AFS chapter leadership and organizers of this annual meeting for hosting us at this great event. Thanks also to PSF for providing funding to support the planning, execution, and collaboration opportunities at this symposium.
2023 Salish Sea Marine Survival Project Transboundary Workshop
On May 16 and 17, 2023, thirty-seven U.S. and Canadian members of the scientific and salmon recovery community convened in Bellingham, Washington, for the first in-person transboundary gathering of the SSMSP in three years. The objectives of the meeting were to:
- Identify how the science and findings from the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project (SSMSP) are being advanced and implemented within Washington State and British Columbia,
- Identify remaining gaps and opportunities for research, action, and transboundary collaboration, and
- Discuss how the strong SSMSP transboundary network plans to engage and collaborate in the future.
This was envisioned to be the first of many workshops that LLTK and PSF plan to host to maintain the SSMSP network and advance transboundary collaboration toward implementing SSMSP findings and recommendations. Funding for this workshop was provided by the Puget Sound Partnership (PSP), with contributions from PSF and LLTK.
View the Workshop Summary Report.
SSMSP Map of Ongoing Work
As part of the 2023 Transboundary Workshop, participants were asked to input information about their ongoing work and projects. This data was compiled into an interactive map.
By clicking on a project icon in the map below, you can learn more about the important work being done throughout the Salish Sea.
Learn more about our ongoing work
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