into a community-wide festival of music, food, and fun. This year, there is extra reason to celebrate as the region’s fish population shows signs of a rebound.
"Part of it is stormwater input into the stream, part of it is overfishing, part of it is the result of development," said Ruth Park, environmental fish passage manager for WSDOT. "Here's some of the streams that are in our backyard," Park said. "This isn't just a somewhere else thing, they're here amongst us.""What exists under a lot of the roadways right now are a pretty small pipe," Park said.
As of June last year, WSDOT has corrected more than 300 fish passage barriers. That's provided more than 1,300 miles of upstream habitat.
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