Dr. Peter Bergman grew up along the shores of Puget Sound where he developed an early fascination with native trout and salmon. Pete worked for Washington's Department of Fisheries (now WDFW) for over 20 years, including a number of years as Assistant Director of Fisheries in charge of the state's salmon program.

Pete then served as the Executive Director of the Salmon and Steelhead Advisory Commission and upon completing his work there was hired by Northwest Marine Technology to develop new and better ways of identifying aquatic organisms. This job tied in with Pete's earlier accomplishment - he co-invented the Coded Wire Tag which is widely used today to track salmon and their information.

Pete was also called upon by the National Marine Fisheries Service to serve on the Snake River Recovery Team. He saw the need for better hatchery management and that observation led to the Congressionally mandated hatchery initiative.


Bill Bradbury's public career has been full of salmon. In 1981, just elected an Oregon State Representative, Bill introduced and passed the Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program. 2.5 million volunteer hours have been contributed by thousands of Oregonians to enhance salmon in the 25 years since the program was created.

In 1993, as Senate President, Bill was shepherd of a bill creating watershed councils in Oregon, and saw to it that $10 million was appropriated to get them started. There are about 120 watershed councils in Oregon today - multi-stakeholder groups focused on salmon survival and clean water. Watershed Councils were a key part of Oregon's Plan for Salmon.

In 1995, Bill became Executive Director of For the Sake of the Salmon, a three-state (WA, OR, CA) watershed-based salmon recovery effort. He worked closely with the tribes, sportsmen, fish and wildlife agencies and federal government to support a watershed approach to salmon recovery.

In 1999, Bill left For the Sake of the Salmon when he was appointed Oregon Secretary of State.


Jim Kramer has been working to protect and restore the environment of the region since he first fell in love with the Sound as an Evergreen College student in 1975. Over the years, Jim has proven himself as regional leader in natural resource programs. He is a practitioner in the art of democracy, moving people and organizations to action and results.

Jim joined forces with Bill Ruckelshaus, Billy Frank Jr. and other leaders across the Sound in 1997 when Chinook salmon were proposed to be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Jim was a key architect in designing and facilitating the Salmon Recovery Funding Board decisions on over $100M for salmon projects. In 2002, Jim created the nonprofit organization, Shared Strategy for Puget Sound. This innovative approach to collaboration created first ever recovery plan for a listed species developed by the local community. In this case the local community included the 14 watersheds of Puget Sound with all their diverse interests and participants.

Last year, along with his duties at Shared Strategy, Jim was the co-manager in creating the Puget Sound Partnership and advocated for salmon recovery to be an integral part of restoring the ecosystem to health. Thanks to the Governor, the legislature and hard work of many, $40M was appropriated in the last session to accelerate projects on the ground for salmon. This result is a continuing demonstrative of Jim's abilities to work with others to greatly benefit salmon and the people of the region. His love for the Sound and the people of the region continues to grow.

Jim Lichatowich has worked on Pacific salmon issues as a researcher, manager, and scientific advisor for 37 years. He specializes in the history of salmon management and the life history and status of salmon and steelhead populations and the development of restoration plans in the Pacific Northwest. Jim was formerly the Chief of Fisheries Research and Assistant Chief of Fisheries for the State of Oregon. He served ten years on the Independent Scientific Advisory Board for the Columbia River salmon restoration program. He served four years on the State of Oregon's Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team. He has served on four independent scientific review panels for the California Bay-Delta Authority.

Jim has worked with organizations such as the Oregon Business Council, Bonneville Power Administration, Oregon Trout, Native Fish Society, The North Umpqua Foundation, EcoTrust, Portland General Electric, The Wilderness Society, Pacific Rivers Council, Trout Unlimited, and the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.

He is the author of the award-winning book, Salmon without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis.

Anne Mosness As a conservationist, commercial fisherwoman, and grass roots activist, Anne Mosness became involved in the battle to save Wild Salmon that was being waged within regulatory agencies and courtrooms, at the ballot box, in legislatures and Congress. And as a mother, Anne recognized that values passed on through generations in family fishing businesses were as important as restoring and sharing Nature's most nearly perfect food.

Anne developed the "Go Wild Campaign" to educate journalists, public and elected officials about sustainable fisheries. Her work also highlights the differences between wild and farmed salmon, and risks to native species from open cage fish farming. Anne has forged common ground with diverse interests, creating coalitions of environmental, fishing, agriculture, food safety and consumer advocacy groups. She encourages a groundswell of voices to speak up for protection of our oceans, watersheds and small businesses and communities that depend on abundant wild salmon.

Anne received a Food and Society Policy Fellowship, is part of the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance and writes and speaks on the importance of wild salmon and sustainable fisheries. She has presented information to national and global commissions, political committees, college and school classrooms, United Nations and Slow Food conferences in Europe, on CNN, NPR and other major media.

After decades of volunteer work, Anne inspires others to realize that to save Wild Salmon, we need to recognize their economic value and health benefits, as well as their essential place in the web of life of our region.

The 2007 Inductees...