Focusing on the Future of Salmon
The Salmon Prize project is a race to discover, predict and conserve Pacific Salmon returns. Teams will submit their predictions of salmon run trends. The teams with the most accurate prediction models will win cash prizes.
Register Your Team$5,000 of prizes available to be won!
Register your team now and start submitting predictions to win prizes
Featured Competition
2025 Sockeye International
$5,000 in prizes available for
3 major systems
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Why the salmon prize?
To learn more about what we are doing and why, check out the following resources below:
2025 Sockeye International timeline
The 2025 Sockeye International competition covers 14 unique Sockeye runs within three major systems: Columbia River, Fraser River and Bristol Bay. This competition is designed to see which Team can best predict the number of returning Sockeye from these runs, and includes a retrospective analysis covering the past five years (including 2025).
Registration starts
Apr 14, 2025
Teams submit their hypotheses and predictions
Predictions Due
Jun 30, 2025
All predictions are due by this date, and judging will begin shortly thereafter
Final Winners Announced
Mar 19, 2026
The teams that best predict salmon runs will win cash prizes!
Predictions will be unveiled on Jun 30, 2025 at Yakima, WA
Livestream registration link will be made available for all participants to watch