INDIAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — The return of salmon to the tidelands below Indian Island’s bluffs has been swift following the removal of a causeway. Bill Kalina, the island’s environmental program manager for the Navy, was taken aback by the jump in the number of juvenile salmon since the causeway was replaced with the bridge. For the past 75 years, the causeway’s two small culverts were the only way saltwater traversed Oak Bay north to Kilisut. But in 2020, a $12.6 million state project replaced the causeway with a bridge. Only six juvenile salmon were found in five years before the bridge opened. During two days in May, volunteers netted almost 1,000 juvenile salmon.
Causeway removal meant big jump in juvenile salmon
