Snohomish & Puget Sound Coho Fishing Enhancement

Eagle Creek Hatchery is located on private property and operated solely by volunteers with limited funding.

Over 60,000 eyed-eggs, surplus from Wallace Hatchery, are hatched, raised, and released into the Skykomish River annually. This year we are home to over 88,000 fish!

Why is a private hatchery important? The surplus fish from the WDFW hatchery, if not kept local, would be given to other organizations and released in distant river systems. We need to keep these fish local!


Whether you fish the Sound or the rivers, from a boat or from shore, with friends or alone, get paid to fish or pay to fish, buy fishing gear or sell it, this directly benefits YOU!

Eagle Creek Hatchery is as ongoing project that brings community together!
In mid-2009 Everett Steelhead and Salmon club took over the operations of the hatchery. The entire water system had been severely damaged in the 2007 floods and required total replacement. The hatchery is operational now, but in need of .... https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/snohomish-puget-sound-coho-fishing-enhancement