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Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association 2445 E Bakerview Rd Bellingham, WA 98226 360-715-0283 Wendy Scherrer, Executive Director www.n-sea.org
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The Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) is a nonprofit community-based organization dedicated to restoring economically productive, self-sustaining salmon runs in Whatcom County through habitat restoration, education, community participation, and the production of salmon. NSEA is one of 14 Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups in Washington State and is part of a statewide effort established by the WA State Legislature in 1990 to involve the public in community-based salmon recovery. NSEA works cooperatively with landowners, agencies, tribes, businesses, organizations, schools, and volunteers.
NSEA staff and volunteers work on over 35 habitat streamside restoration sites each year. NSEA effectively leverages grants from federal, state, and local sources to implement projects on private and public lands throughout Whatcom County. NSEA supervises five full-time, year-round crews to complete projects, including a dislocated natural resource worker crew of former fishers and timber workers, two WA Conservation Corps youth crews, and two Alternative Corrections crews through Whatcom Co Sheriff's Dept. Over one million North Fork Nooksack spring chinook fry, listed as "Threatened" under the Endangered Species Act are acclimated at three different sites that are staffed by NSEA volunteers in the North Fork Nooksack each spring. Down to a low of 10 natural spawning spring chinook in 1990, 2185 of this stock returned to the spawning grounds in 2001! NSEA works with 1,200 students throughout Whatcom County in the Students for Salmon program. Teacher training workshops are held and each teacher receives a curriculum guide. Each class receives a classroom presentation, and participates in one field trip to study stream ecology, and a second to conduct a hands-on stream restoration project. Fourteen volunteer members serve on the Board of Directors, including two high school youth. Interns and students from Western Washington University, Bellingham Technical College, Whatcom Community College, and Northwest Indian College also work in NSEA programs year-round. |
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