The Puget Sound Partnership is the state agency that leads and coordinates the efforts of citizens, governments, tribes, scientists, businesses and nonprofits to set priorities, implement a regional recovery plan and ensure accountability for results. The Partnership is also a National Estuary Program, a designation established by Congress in 1987 to protect estuaries of national significance that are threatened by degradation caused by human activity. More locally, the Partnership also serves as a Regional Recovery Organization to coordinate Puget Sound partners around salmon recovery efforts and convenes a number of other state priority workgroups that impact Puget Sound recovery.
