$12
2x your stamp contribution
Help restore streamside vegetation and keep local waters cool – Your gift can plant two native trees.
Challenge your chums
Through PSF, your $6.89 Salmon Conservation Stamp funds local habitat restoration, hatchery programs, and science helping salmon.
While the stamp cost has stayed more or less the same for decades, the threats to salmon and work to save and restore them have increased dramatically. Now’s the time to scale up what works. With your support, we can accelerate efforts to restore fish habitat and help salmon thrive.
Would you be willing to chip in extra to scale up local projects for salmon?
The Salmon Conservation Stamp is a direct investment in salmon near you.
Every stamp dollar goes to projects benefitting salmon! PSF stewards these funds on behalf of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and with generous donor support, we leverage the stamp funds so more work can get done for salmon.
3,500+ projects
31 M+ in grants
250 M+ Valued Impact
It’s a reel good investment
Your $6.89 is hard at work to help salmon. But would you give more to scale up restoration efforts near you?
It’s a reel good investment to fund critical, community-led salmon conservation work. Your donation will help salmon for generations to come.
$12
Help restore streamside vegetation and keep local waters cool – Your gift can plant two native trees.
$20
Support boots-on-the-ground volunteers to track salmon returns – Your gift can buy a pair of gum boots for a streamkeeper.
$35
Equip hatcheries with tools and tech to enhance salmon runs – Your gift can provide 7 lbs of food to raise young fish.
$70
Scale up habitat restoration where it matters most – Your gift can supply an emergency transport unit to rescue stranded fish during summer drought.
stamp dollars hard at work
Did you know that your stamp fee provides grants to streamkeepers, First Nations, and conservation groups to save and restore salmon?
Here are just a few examples of your stamp dollars hard at work!
Restoring habitat for endangered Chinook
Your stamp dollars are helping restore salmon habitat near Agassiz in the Fraser Valley.
Thanks to stamp funds and generous donor support, PSF was able to grant $112,384 to the Sq’éwqel (Seabird Island Band) to restore spawning channels in Maria Slough, important habitat for an endangered Chinook population. The restored spawning channels will keep water cooler, oxygen-rich, and flowing longer through drought.
Helping chinook and coho survive the heat
The new Courtenay Fish & Game club hatchery is helping young Chinook and coho survive extreme heat by drawing cold water from Comox Lake. Volunteers are now adding an emergency refuge pond to protect wild salmon during dry spells.
Nearly $100,000 in grants from PSF — made possible by conservation stamp funds — made this new hatchery addition possible.
Keeping toxins away from salmon
Green infrastructure like rain gardens can filter over 90% of the toxic tire chemical 6PPD-quinone from stormwater before it reaches salmon streams.
With funds from your $6.89 stamp contributions, PSF granted $22,500 to Peninsula Streams Society this spring to install two new rain gardens in Greater Victoria. This project is empowering local stewards to protect sensitive urban habitat — and the salmon who rely on it.
The Salmon Conservation Stamp, a decal anglers much purchase with a saltwater fishing license to catch and keep Pacific salmon. It is the primary funding source for the Community Salmon Program. Every year, PSF stewards all proceeds from the stamp on behalf of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to support community-led salmon conservation. The price of the stamp is set by the federal government through regulation.