Our Mission

To restore wild salmon and steelhead and support sustainable fishing in the Pacific Northwest

How We Help

We Learn, Plan, and Act

Working with every level of government, tribal nations, universities, schools, commercial and recreational fishers, environmental groups, donors, businesses, and the public, Long Live the Kings takes a collaborative and iterative approach to salmon recovery.

Our accomplishments over the past 30+ years are not ours alone. Lasting relationships with more than 100 partners are at the core of everything we do. We value the investments and knowledge of local governments and organizations, and work to find common pathways.

More than ever, what we do today matters. Join us as we face some of the most daunting challenges yet and move from science to action.

Our Approach to Salmon Recovery

Advancing Science

We work across borders and scientific disciplines to resolve major barriers to salmon recovery and management. We convene experts, design and launch studies, and create science-based resource management tools. The evidence we find fills critical information gaps, progressing toward salmon recovery and sustainable fisheries. We think big in large undertakings like the Salmon and Climate Initiative and the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project. Other work includes hatchery experimentation, steelhead monitoring, and researching salmon predators and prey.

Improving Management

Unprecedented changes to the natural environment affect fish in dramatic ways. To help imperiled stocks survive, we provide resource managers with the latest information and practices. This takes many forms: improving species recovery plans, identifying and building new sources of financial support, sharing best practices, and navigating policy systems with overlapping, and sometimes conflicting, mandates. We spent a decade improving hatchery practices to reduce impacts to wild fish, and today we bring new strategies that address concerns across the entire ecosystem.

Implementing Solutions

We implement innovative, scientifically sound solutions. Our conservation hatchery programs at Lilliwaup Creek and Glenwood Springs bring local salmon and steelhead populations back from the brink of extinction. Our salmon education and outreach efforts engage the public and thousands of students annually. With partners, we put science to work to raise millions of dollars to improve salmon passage through infrastructure, resulting in the removal of the Middle Fork Nooksack Dam and improving fish passage at the Ballard Locks in Seattle.

Our Values

We are committed to the stewardship of salmon as a resource, collaborating with others, achieving real results, and continuously learning.

Stewardship

We value the ecological and cultural importance of salmon for the Pacific Northwest and all its people. We are mission-driven to recover Pacific salmon – a keystone species vital to the health of our ecosystems – and to preserve sustainable salmon fishing, a cornerstone of Tribal and non-Tribal ways of life.

Collaboration

We value our relationships with rights holders and stakeholders, working together to expand our shared knowledge and implement solutions for salmon recovery. We work across boundaries and disciplines, understanding that creative solutions come from listening to and amplifying diverse voices.

Results

We value approaches that deliver results by advancing science, improving management, and driving solutions that target the greatest threats to salmon. We evaluate our work by holding ourselves accountable to salmon recovery goals and the people who share the same environment.

Learning

We value learning from multiple ways of knowing and honor opportunities for continuous growth. We learn from and contribute to current science, explore new approaches, facilitate information-sharing, and listen to a diversity of views to improve our work.

Our Progress and Plans for the Future

Annual Reports

Download and view our annual reports and IRS 990 forms to learn about our progress and what we have in store for the future.

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Strategic Roadmap

Our five-year plan shows where we see ourselves, how we work and what we want to accomplish in the future—together.

Explore our Plan

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