Fill removal: The Swinomish Channel was dredged for navigation by the US Army Corps of Engineers with the spoils placed as fill along the shoreline of the channel. Out-migrating juvenile salmon need estuary habitat to rest and feed as they move from fresh to marine waters. Currently, pocket estuary restorations are being developed along the channel by the Tribe and SRSC, primarily by removal of areas of this fill. To date, three such pocket estuary restorations have been completed along the channel on the Reservation and a fourth is under construction. They are built to provide fish habitat at current sea levels. In the future they may be designed for future higher levels or over time new ones built at higher level to match gradual rises in sea level. Again, such projects are feasible for the Tribe where the Tribe owns the land. In most cases along the channel this is already the situation. It is likely that little acquisition would be needed to continue this approach as needed along the channel.