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The Pacific Northwest Salmon Center held the 5th annual Wild Salmon Hall of Fame celebration Sept. 22 at the Kitsap Conference Center in Bremerton. Fred Barrett, president of the Pacific Northwest Salmon Center, was Master of Ceremonies and keynote speaker was David Dicks, director of the Puget Sound Partnership.
In a three-way tie, the inductees were honored with a bronze casting of sculpture by Dr. Al Adams depicting the spawning dance of Wild Salmon, before an audience of more than 200 people.
Honored were Jim Kramer, executive director of Shared Strategy for Puget Sound; Jim Lichatowich, fisheries researcher and celebrated author, and Bill Bradbury, Oregon’s Secretary of State.
Kramer joined forces with Bill Ruckelshaus and other leaders and was a key architect in designing the salmon recovery funding system that directs over $100 million state and federal dollars to salmon-restoration projects in Washington State. He created the Shared Strategy nonprofit organization in 2002, and last year, served as co-manager for the first Puget Sound Partnership.
Lichatowich, a fisheries scientist, salmon manager and scientific adviser, served as Chief of Fisheries Research and Assistant Chief of Fisheries for the state of Oregon. His award-winning book “Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis” demonstrates how salmon populations came to be in crisis.
Bradbury, serving as an Oregon state representative in 1981, passed the state’s renowned Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program. In 1993, as Senate President, he shepherded a bill creating watershed councils throughout Oregon and saw to it that $10 million was appropriated. There are now 120 watershed councils in Oregon. He became executive director of For the Sake of the Salmon, a three-state salmon-recovery effort, in 1995. He was appointed Oregon Secretary of State In 1999.
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