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Native Fish Society Welcomes You To Our 30th Annual Homewaters Benefit Banquet + Auction on Saturday, April 4th, 2026 in Portland, OR. Every bid supports habitat restoration, legal advocacy, and community-powered science.
Auction Details & TicketsConservation Wins
Decades of grassroots advocacy, powered by River Stewards and supporters like you, have delivered measurable wins for native fish and the rivers they depend on.
North Umpqua River
150 miles reconnected
After a decade-long campaign, the dam was removed in 2024, reopening critical steelhead and salmon habitat.
Klamath River
Largest dam removal in US history
NFS supported the coalition that secured the removal of four dams, restoring 400 miles of salmon habitat.
Sandy River
Marmot Dam removed, fish passage restored
One of the Pacific Northwest's great conservation success stories, with salmon returning to ancestral spawning grounds.
The Crisis in Numbers
Adult fish counted passing Bonneville Dam each year. The bold area is hatchery-origin fish. The lighter area within is the estimated wild-origin fraction.
~80%
of returns are hatchery fish
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wild fish remain today
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decline from pre-dam estimates
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live dam count
Data sources: Bonneville Dam passage counts from DART, Columbia Basin Research, University of Washington. Pre-dam estimates from Chapman 1986, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. Wild fraction estimates from Jaeger & Scheuerell 2023, PLOS One; NWPCC Fish and Wildlife Program. Wild steelhead counts (1994+) from USACE adipose-fin clip monitoring.
Wild fish are running out of time.
Native Fish Society educates, activates, and inspires a region-wide network of local grassroots advocates dedicated to science-based solutions for their Northwest homewaters and wild, native fish.
You can make a lasting impact by speaking for your backyard river and its native fish!
A juvenile salmon born in Idaho’s upper Snake River must pass through 8 federal dams to reach the Pacific Ocean. Each dam takes a toll.
Data sources: Species mix and wild-origin rates from Fish Passage Center / DART, Lower Granite Dam (2018-2024 avg). Survival estimates from NOAA CSS/COMPASS.
Native Fish Society works alongside a network of organizations, agencies, Tribes, and businesses united by a shared commitment to wild fish and the rivers they need to thrive.
We support short-term hatchery programs that serve as life support operations for endangered populations or reintroducing extirpated fish populations, and long-term hatchery programs on lakes and other landlocked waterbodies that lack wild counterparts.
In the long-term, the industrial approach to river and fisheries management that relies on fish hatcheries does not lead to abundant fisheries, nor healthy ecosystems, nor thriving communities.
The best hatchery is a healthy river.
To revive abundant fish and thriving local communities, we need to invest in a model of stewardship that protects and restores healthy, free-flowing rivers and sustainable fisheries management focused on wild fish.
The Native Fish Society is dedicated to cultivating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive groundswell of public support for reviving abundant wild fish, free-flowing rivers, and thriving communities.
The Cost of This Work
Your donation funds the tools, science, and legal expertise that protect native fish populations across the Pacific Northwest.
$340
Stream temperature sensor
Runs for five years. Generates data used in 12+ studies.
$8,200
One season of juvenile surveys
Population counts, habitat assessments, and species identification on a single river.
$25,000
Legal challenge to a water allocation
Expert witnesses, filings, and representation to protect instream flows.
Your River
Whether you give, volunteer, or follow -- every connection to a river strengthens it.