Wild Salmon Center
Description
Wild Salmon Center is a conservation network of scientists and advocates working to protect wild salmon, steelhead, char and trout.
It was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. It works with communities, businesses, governments and other non-profits to protect healthy salmon ecosystems across the North Pacific. Its programs run in Russia, Japan, Alaska, British Columbia, Washington State, Oregon and California.
The organization follows a salmon stronghold strategy, focused on protecting river ecosystems that still hold the most abundant and diverse wild salmon populations, such as the Kamchatka Peninsula, Sakhalin Island, British Columbia and Bristol Bay. It combines research, on the ground conservation work and advocacy to secure long term protection for wild fish. It also produces educational resources about salmon for schools and the public, and highlights threats from industrial development, dams, overfishing and climate change.
Latest news
Our new Vice President of Finance & Administration believes in leadership through service.
6 Aug 2026
Meet the Tugur River salmon eaters
As the world’s largest salmonid gets bigger, cousins start to look like food.
16 Jun 2026
Should you eat salmon? And if so, what kind? We break down what you need to know to shop—and eat—with confidence.
14 May 2026
A “conservationist to the core,” Walt Mintkeski’s environmental legacy lives on in Oregon’s coastal rivers.
13 May 2026
Wild Salmon Center’s new Fisheries Analyst aims to get the very best data to our partners across the Pacific.
18 Feb 2026
Made with Patagonia Provisions® Smoked Wild Pink Salmon, cream cheese and green onions, this dip is thick so serve it with a knife for spreading.
3 Feb 2026
Similar organizations
The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to protect land, water and wildlife.
Clean Air Network is a Hong Kong non-governmental organisation focused on the issue of air pollution.
United Plant Savers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their habitat.