By Hayden Yu Andersen

Reporting for West Seattle Blog

Last weekend, we reported on the annual Longfellow Creek cleanup event , hosted by Puget Soundkeeper Alliance and Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association . Each year, teams gather to clean up the park and chat with Puget Soundkeeper’s salmon-survey team.

In the wake of the event, Puget Soundkeeper shared their mid-survey data with us. Of note is the fact that this is their first year performing necropsies on both female and male salmon. So far this year, the team has counted 402 live salmon and 125 dead salmon in Longfellow Creek, for a total recorded population of 529. See the data for this year and last year here .

For the past several years, in addition to tracking the coho population, they’ve been monitori

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