Puget Sound has gone through a significant transformation since I was a child.
The only seals I saw as a child were at the Pt. Defiance Zoo. Now, Harbor Seals seem to occupy most of the navigation bouys and can be seen feeding just about anywhere significant numbers of fish can be found.
To a lesser extent, birds on the Sound seem to be more common too.
However, the Salmon Fishery that closed when I was a teenager has only gotten worse. From what I have read or seen, the major offenders are: 1) high-head dams grinding Salmon into chum coming and going; 2) further destruction of spawning habitat; 3) disease/parasite transmission from Atlantic Char (grown on submerged fish farms) to Salmon emerging from spawning grounds; 4) factory trawlers finishing off the last of the adult Salmon beyond the 200-mile limit.
Good things don’t seem to be happening for our Salmon. Unless something is done soon, within my lifetime I believe they will be extinct.
