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Sustainable Seafood
Celebrate your holidays in style. And sustainability. With each season, it seems salmon and shellfish are catching up with your traditional holiday meal headliners (you know…turkey, stuffing, mystery green bean casseroles). Now the great thing about salmon and shellfish is they can be sourced locally and sustainably, strengthening Washington’s water-dependent food systems, economies and communities. […]
UPCOMING ‘FISH WAR’ MOVIE SCREENINGS
August 17: Festival of the st̓əč̓as (Steh-Chass), Heritage Park, Olympia August 31: Unkitawa, 816 Central Avenue North, Kent. Septembere 19: Port Townsend Film Festival September 26-Sept 29: Gig Harbor Film Festival October: Doctober at the Pickford Film Center, Bellingham October 10-13: Tacoma Film Festival October 25-27: Friday Harbor Film Festival
Another Sucessful Billy Frank Jr. Classic in the Books!
A big thank you to the ever gracious host, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe for hosting us at the 7 Cedars Golf course for our most significant fundraiser. Thank you to all those who sponsored this year and came to swing a club for salmon. Contact us about becoming a 2025 tournament sponsor! Thank You 2024 Place […]
We’ve Reached Our Goal! The Billy Frank Jr. Statue is Now Fully Funded
Salmon Defense is proud to annouce the full funding of the Billy Frank Jr. Statue, in thanks to the Washington State Legislature. We give our sincere thanks to the Tribes, businesses, and individuals who have donated to the Billy Frank Jr. Statue Fund, we raised $100,000 together! Read the news here: https://www.arts.wa.gov/billy-frank-jr/
A Huge Thank You To All Billy Frank Jr. Statue Donors!
We give our sincere thanks to all of the Tribes, businesses, and individuals who have donated to the Billy Frank Jr. Statue Fund. We have raised over $80,000 so far! Donations are still being accepted at Donate to the Billy Frank Jr. Statue and Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Forever Fund
Letter from WA State Treasurer marks 1st Billy Frank Jr. Statue Donation
Honoring a Legacy and Committing to Action The WA State Treasurer sent his thanks for the $70, 332 donation from Salmon Defense to the state of Washington Billy Frank Jr. National Statuary Hall Collection Fund, March 22nd 2022. Together we can build the Billy Frank Jr. Statue and the Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Forever Fund Donations are currently […]
Billy Frank Jr Salmon Coalition
The Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Coalition identified a need for a powerful media campaign to build understanding and support public engagement that ultimately strengthens the resolve of decision makers. We have partnered with the communications firm C+C to build and develop a solid and sustainable communications campaign to carry the work forward of the Billy […]
United to Save Salmon and Orcas
Below is a link to a guest editorial that ran in the Seattle Times, written by Lorraine Loomis (Salmon Defense Vice Chair) and Phil Anderson (former director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife). It focuses on chinook fishing, orca recovery and the Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Coalition. “Some people are renewing the call […]
Billy Frank Jr. Classic 2018, In The Books
For the past ten years in May, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe has generously donated their beautiful golf course, The Cedars at Dungeness, to Salmon Defense for our annual golf tournament. The tournament was renamed the Billy Frank Jr. Classic shortly after he made his journey home on May 5, 2014. The Cedars at Dungeness is […]