Wild Salmonid Stock Inventory

To monitor salmon populations the Department of Fish and Wildlife and tribes are counting the number of wild salmon stocks that are healthy, depressed, or critical through the Salmonid Stock Inventory or "SaSI". This inventory, begun in 1992, currently contains information on 555 stocks of salmon, steelhead, and trout. The inventory was never intended to represent the historical losses of salmon stocks, but it does give us an idea of the trouble salmon are in. Healthy:
Includes a wide range of actual conditions, from robust to stocks that cannot sustain harvest. Although deemed healthy, concerns may exist and their status may change when the eight-year-old SaSI information is updated next year.

Depressed:
Stocks whose production is below expected levels, based on available habitat and natural variation in survival rates, but above where permanent damage is likely.

 Critical:
Stocks that have declined to the point that they are in danger of significant loss of genetic diversity, or are at risk of extinction.

Extinct:
A stock of fish that no longer is present in its original range or as a distinct stock elsewhere.

Unknown:
Stocks that have insufficient information to rate.

~Wild Salmonid Stock Inventory~

Salmon are in trouble?

There seem to be plenty at the market and in restaurants...

Most of the salmon we buy in stores or restaurants is not from here. It's from Alaska where salmon habitat is still pristine or from fish farms in other countries. The relatively small amount of salmon that is from here is from hatchery runs or healthy wild stocks.