thanks for chipping in extra!

You have scaled up your impact for salmon, helping PSF fund even more important local projects through our Community Salmon Program.

Send a friend an ecard asking them to donate and we’ll send you a PSF bumper sticker to proudly display on your car or boat.

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

Your donation will help provides grants to streamkeepers, First Nations, and conservation groups to save and restore salmon.

Here are just a few examples of your funds hard at work!

Restoring habitat for endangered Chinook

Your support is 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.

  • Volunteers and local partners help cut down invasive reed canary grass and plant some hardy vegetation along the stream banks.

  • The construction crew is hard at work to create new riffles, eddies, and pools where Chinook can rest.

  • The deeper streambed will be more resilient to low flows and hot summer temperatures.

  • Courtenay Fish & Game volunteers helped build the new hatchery.

  • A new refuge pond beside the hatchery will protect young fish from dry spells.

  • The tanks are filled with cool water drawn from the depths of Comox Lake.

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, fueled  by conservation stamp funds and generous donors, made these beneficial hatchery additions 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.

Thanks to donors like you, 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.

  • Community members pitching in to create green solutions for stormwater run-off.

  • Rain Garden Site – BEFORE

  • Rain Garden Site – AFTER

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. 

Stack Your Stamps!

Your $6.89 is already being put to work to help salmon where they need it most. But would you give more to see more restoration efforts near you?

Multiply your impact and help us double down on efforts to save and restore salmon – one stamp at a time.

  • $12

    2x your stamp contribution

    Help restore streamside vegetation and keep local waters cool – Your gift can plant two native trees.

  • $20

    3x your stamp contribution

    Support boots-on-the-ground volunteers to track salmon returns – Your gift can buy a pair of gum boots for a streamkeeper.

  • $35

    5x your stamp contribution

    Equip hatcheries with tools and tech to enhance salmon runs – Your gift can provide 7 lbs of food to raise young fish.

  • $70

    10x your stamp contribution

    Scale up habitat restoration where it matters most – Your gift can supply an emergency transport unit to rescue stranded fish during summer drought.