King salmon = Chinook salmon

Alternatives would be Sockeye (red), Coho (silver) salmon, Pink (humpback), Chum (dog), and steelhead. I know that last one is called a trout, but it is in the same genus (Oncorhynchus), is more closely related to Pacific salmon than Atlantic salmon, has a similar life history, and, most importantly, tastes quite similar.

@ Herzog While cleaning up the Duwamish be a commendable use of your time, your Slog posts would be missed (not being sarcastic).

You are new here, aren't you? This has not been news for about 20 years.

a Duwamish clean up and restoration of adequate habitat is decades away. they're starving now, and the babies are dying. none of this will happen in time.

even if the snake dams are removed, Bonneville, the Dalles, McNery all stand in the salmon's way.

its sad.

And remove the Ballard Locks, remove the Ship Canal, and restore Salmon Bay, Lake Union, and Lake Washington to their natural state. We came in here and wrecked the place, and now it's time to unwreck it.

Let’s not forget who pushed to lowball the Duwamish Superfund cleanup: Boeing (no big surprise), the Pork of Seattle (no big surprise), and #Neoliberal fucktards Dow Constantine and Ed Murray. #KingCountySoGreen #SeattleSoGreen

http://www.invw.org/2014/11/19/the-last-days-of-the-old-1484/

Them orca style whales is going going,,,,,,,,,gone, writing is on the stall wall,,,,

Capping contaminated sediment often. Releases LESS contaminants into the water. Dredging remove the sediment, but also stirs up long-stable contaminants and they flow downstream in to the Sound.

You would release decades worth of PCBs into Puget Sound if you dredged, causing acute damage.

Clean up advocates are often on the side of doing more, but any process of “removing instead of capping” will cause more problems than it solves.

Some things when you break them, stay broken. We have a list of shitty options and have to choose the least-shitty. We need to stop pretending “cleaning up” is possible in some cases. It ain’t. We fucked this one up permanently.

@5 Rebuild Denny Hill! Sign me up, let's get the Degrade funded.

@7 One down, only 50,000 or so to go, eh?

Reversing the EPA water quality standards will be a big step backwards? This sounds like something we could all understand, except that if one studies the issue for just a few moments, it gets more complicated. For instance, why would one of the nation's greenest governors have proposed standards that are less onerous than those the EPA adopted by rejecting his proposal? Huh. How will the Department of Ecology implement the new standards when detection and treatment technologies do not exist to ensure compliance? One wishes the author would spend time to learn about the issue from the many parties, including the Governor's Office, that opposed EPA's rejection of the state standards. Simply mouthing a story told by one side of a debate is hardly professional journalism, unless Sean Hannity is your mentor.

Puget Sound needs our attention. Cleaning up toxic wastes is one part of a complex and expensive plan to accomplish this goal. But should the Duwamish take priority over habitat acquisition? Eel grass restoration? Stormwater treatment? Come on, girl, you have to do better for your readers. Take a look at what Chris Dunagan does and up your game.