Forty years ago, a small group of fishermen, scientists, and dreamers asked a simple question: what can we do about disappearing wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest? The answer became Long Live the Kings.
Founded in 1986 from a hatchery experiment on Orcas Island, Long Live the Kings has spent four decades working at the intersection of science, collaboration, and community to recover wild salmon and steelhead across the Pacific Northwest. This film, produced for LLTK's 40th anniversary, tells that story through the voices of the people who lived it.
From hatchery reform and the 21st Century Salmon and Steelhead Project, to the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project, the Hood Canal Bridge fish passage project, Survive the Sound, and now to the Resilient Salmon Initiative, the work continues.
Learn more about Long Live the Kings at lltk.org.
Founded in 1986 from a hatchery experiment on Orcas Island, Long Live the Kings has spent four decades working at the intersection of science, collaboration, and community to recover wild salmon and steelhead across the Pacific Northwest. This film, produced for LLTK's 40th anniversary, tells that story through the voices of the people who lived it.
From hatchery reform and the 21st Century Salmon and Steelhead Project, to the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project, the Hood Canal Bridge fish passage project, Survive the Sound, and now to the Resilient Salmon Initiative, the work continues.
Learn more about Long Live the Kings at lltk.org.
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