Washington tribes get $39.4 million for fish habitat restoration, culvert removal efforts

Ten tribes from around Puget Sound will receive a total of $39.4 million from the federal government to advance salmon population restoration projects.

The money, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will help replace old culverts, pipes or tunnels that carry a stream or creek underneath roadways, which obstruct fish from traveling between their spawning waters and the sea.