7089

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7089
• Author: Northwest Power Planning Council.
• Title: Strategy for Salmon
• USFW Year: 1992.
• USFW - Doc Type: Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.
• Copyright Material: NO

The principal
goal of this' salmon
strategy is to
double Columbia
River Basin adult '
salmon populations
without losing the
biological diversity
that now exi.~ts. The
balance must be
struck between
multi:plying num-
~ be~s of fish, and .
~ preserving the so/-'
vival traits and oth-
er characteristics
. inherent in salmon
that spawn natural-
ly in our streams. .

T hi.S strategy a!so .establishes numerical
. . targets for rapidly rebuilding salmon
. . runs in the Snake River B~sin, where
. the salmon decline is most dramatic. For
Snake River spring chinobk, that rebuilding
. . \
target is 50,000 adult salmon returning to the
Snake Basin. Fqr Snake River summer
chinook, the target i$ 20,000 adults. For fall
. chinook, the reJJuilding targetis 1,000 fish.
These. are ambitious, butachievabl~, targets
ifwe beginto act now.

Double the
runs

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rn fJ. VI-An Historical Perspective

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Current
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The ColumbIa Ri,,"er Basin
Fish and Wildlife Program

This salmon strategy grows out of and .
builds upon the Northwest Power Planning
Council's lo-year~ld Columbia River Basin
, Fish and Wildlife Program. Our Hshand
wildlife program was the first nah.1ral re-
source effort to treat the entire Columbia
River Basin as a sh"gle system. That pro-
gram, which we developed in {esponse to
Congress' Northwest Power Act of 1980,
set in motion hundreds of activities across

8,000 B.C.
Pacific Northwest Indians occupy
the region, relying on salmon as
a major source of food.

. 458 A.D.
Five Chinese Buddhist monks begin a
voyage around the Pacific Rim, pass-
ing the mouth ofthe Columbia River
some 1;334 years before Robert Gray .
"discovers. it in 1792.