| Puget Sound Restoration Fund (PSRF) is a Washington-based nonprofit organization. Founded in 1997, PSRF is dedicated exclusively to restoring marine habitat, water quality and native species in Puget Sound. We pursue restoration collaboratively with industry, tribes, government agencies, private landowners and community groups and we take a non-activist, project-oriented, broadly inclusive approach to our work. As an organization, we are committed to a vision of a clean and healthy Sound that is productive, full of life and capable of sustaining us.
Our Misson: To achieve on-the-ground restoration of habitat and native species in Puget Sound by focusing on action not politics.
Our Goal: To mobilize funding and support from diverse sources to complete priority projects.
Project results:
- Restored 575 acres in Drayton Harbor to conditional shellfish harvest
- Planted 10 million native oyster seed at 80 sites with over 100 partners
- Enhanced 27 acres of native oyster habitat with either shell or seed
- Launched 3 Community Shellfish Farms to improve water quality, restore productive shellfish growing areas and reconnect people to healthy marine resources
- Conducted pilot larval abalone outplant to help recover pinto abalone populations
- Raised and outplanted nearly 2,000 juvenile abalone in Washington State's first restoration outplant of pinto abalone
- Began monitoring the potential impacts of ocean acidification on shellfish communities
- Revegetated 5 acres of streambank along Shinglemill Creek on Vashon Island
- Renewed access to 2 ½ miles of spawning habitat on Bainbridge Island
- Restored 3 acres of riparian habitat in Manzanita Creek
- Restored 2.6 acres of intertidal habitat in Liberty Bay by removing derelict gear
- Recreated 2 acres of wetlands at Paramount Park in Shoreline
- Improved salmon habitat in Miller Creek, Normandy Park
- Revegetated 2 acres of riparian habitat in Griffin Creek in King County
- Created a ¾ mile shoreline trail overlooking Mud Bay in Olympia
- Built 3 bridges to link 2.5 miles of trail at Meadowbrook Farm in King County
- Planted 100,000 Pacific oysters in Eagle Harbor to mitigate nutrient pollution
- Replaced a culvert in Puget Creek, Tacoma to renew salmon access
- Constructed a rearing channel in Newaukum Creek
- Installed 60 shellfish gardens to connect people to the health of local waters
- Initiated a nutrient mitigation project on Vashon Island using mussels to remove excess nitrogen
- Collaborated on an economic assessment of shellfish production & restoration in Puget Sound
- For detailed information about our projects...
Click here to view the awards we have won.
- Local Hero Award, Governor Locke, 2003
- Native oyster project showcased at White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation, 2005
- Environmental Excellence Award, Washington State Department of Ecology, 2005
- Excellence in Restoration Award, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, 2006
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Community Shellfish Farms
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Drayton Harbor Community Oyster Farm- Blaine
Henderson Inlet Community Shellfish Farm- Olympia
Port Madison Community Shellfish Farm- Bainbridge Island
Check out documentary videos of our abalone and oyster restoration work and our community shellfish farms.
Did You Know...
A single oyster can filter 20 - 40 gallons of water per day.
Read a description of Rowan Jacobsen's new book “The Living Shore: Rediscovering a Lost World”, which describes his work with PSRF and the Olympia oyster.
With the help of over 50 volunteers donating over 400 hours, PSRF restored 2.6 acres of intertidal habitat on public tidelands by removing 12,586 PVC pipes and over 7 miles of polypropylene line from a defunct shellfish operation. More info...
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