This technical memo gives a summary of all Skagit River System Cooperative activities for 2022
in the Port Susan Bay. The summary includes description of water surface elevations
measurements and observations of fish and habitat conditions at sites across Port Susan Bay to
complete two study objectives: 1) evaluate restoration efforts within the Hatt Slough restoration
project where 2022 data collection provides pre-restoration information and 2) to understand
changes to landscape connectivity via construction of new delta distributaries influences juvenile
Chinook salmon density and growth potential. The work in Port Susan Bay is a collaboration
between SRSC, The Nature Conservancy, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and
Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians. Some data collected as part of the work is funded under various
forms, for example in 2022, some of the data to evaluate landscape connectivity included sites
uses to evaluate Leque Island Restoration Site a WDFW Project that SRSC is monitoring.
