• Our Mission

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    The Native Fish Society is a forward-thinking organization guided by the best available science to advocate for historically abundant wild, native fish and promote the stewardship of habitats that sustain them.

  • Native Fish Society's Purpose

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    All of us in the Pacific Northwest, no matter where we live, are bound together by the silver threads of salmon and steelhead runs. Northwest native fish face many challenges to their preservation and recovery, including government policies that contribute to their decline. Our purpose at NFS is to protect and restore native, wild fish and their habitats, and our work is crucial to the survival and recovery of wild salmon and steelhead.

  • Conservation, Preservation, Restoration

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    Let science speak to what is needed to protect and restore native fish species and the habitats in which they live. That's the basis of our advocacy work. That's what we fight for, every day. Because that's what it takes to protect and restore native fish.

Our Mission

The Native Fish Society is a forward-thinking organization guided by the best available science to advocate for historically abundant wild, native fish and promote the stewardship of habitats that sustain them.

Conservation, Preservation, Restoration

The Native Fish Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 whose purpose is to protect and restore native, wild fish and their habitats. Our goal is the conservation, preservation and restoration of wild fish in the Pacific Northwest. We work to establish effective fish management policies based on the latest scientific research, and we encourage the public to get involved in this process.

River Steward Program — Dedicated Volunteers, Incredible Achievements

The NFS River Steward Program began in 2004 with the original purpose of compliance monitoring, making sure the federal and state agencies comply with native fish policy.

The program has grown considerably since its conception, and while compliance remains a strong focus, NFS River Stewards go beyond compliance to conserve, protect and restore native fish populations in their watersheds through a variety of ways, including identifying threats to recovery and developing solutions, creating coalitions to stop threats to native fish, habitat restoration, nutrient enhancement, fish monitoring, public education and community outreach, among numerous others.

The Oregon Hatchery Accountability Project

The Native Fish Society is seeking ways to provide more fiscal and ecological accountability in the operation of Oregon’s hatchery system. Oregon’s Hatchery Accountability Project would have the state of Oregon contract with an independent third party for a risk/benefit review of each of its separate hatchery programs in order to determine the return on the state’s investment and to analyze the risks of these programs to native species and the environment. This review would help prioritize individual hatchery operations as reductions in these program occur.

Save Sandy Salmon Campaign — Our Homewaters Require Vigilance

The removal of Marmot Dam and its fish-sorting capacity in 2007, ironically, is allowing unprecedented numbers of hatchery fish to reach previously inaccessible wild fish spawning grounds in the upper river, maximizing the risk from competition, genetic dilution, pathogens and other hatchery-wild interaction effects. Absent immediate and dramatic reductions in the threats the Sandy Hatchery program poses to the recovery of wild fish, there is a very serious risk of missing our best chance in 100 years to recover the Sandy’s wild salmon and steelhead legacy.