A Long Fight to Restore Snake River Salmon. The fight to protect salmon isn't a recent problem but one that spans several decades. From the Columbia Basin Tribe treaties in 1855 to groundbreaking agreements reached in 2023, learn about the …

Nov 20, 1991 · The Snake River sockeye salmon is an endangered species. NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast Region, along with the Science Centers, work to protect and conserve this species under the Endangered Species Act.

The Snake River Salmon Recovery Region hosts 12 populations of salmon, steelhead trout, and bull trout. This report only includes the Washington components of the larger Endangered Species Act-listed Snake River population groups that extend into Oregon and Idaho.

Aug 18, 2022 · Upper Columbia River spring-run Chinook salmon and Snake River sockeye salmon are among the most endangered salmon on the West Coast. Both face high extinction risk, according to viability assessments completed by the NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

Jul 31, 2020 · Dismantling the four lower Snake River dams would set in motion one of the greatest river restorations ever, opening free-flowing access to some 5,000 miles of wild salmon spawning habitat, much of it in protected wilderness areas.

Apr 1, 2020 · Within two years every salmon and steelhead species in the Snake River was on the list. They all must get through these eight dams and reservoirs, twice. Too few now do to even replace themselves, much less recover. The naturals …

Dec 7, 2023 · Science-backed solution: Science is clear that removal of the four lower Snake River dams — Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, Lower Granite — is the single best thing we can do to save salmon from extinction and restore their populations to abundance.

Mar 10, 2024 · Salmon migration routes and spawning pools have been destroyed or blockaded by dams along the Snake River, branching East from the Columbia in Kennewick, WA into Idaho. Snake River Sockeye, Chinook, and Coho salmon, protected under the Endangered Species Act, are keystone species in the PNW.

Marine mammals, birds, and non-native predatory fish are eating more salmon, compromising salmon recovery. Enhanced integration across harvest, hatchery, habitat, and hydropower will be important to achieve recovery objectives. The Snake River region encompasses Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla, and part of Whitman County.

Oct 1, 2023 · As recently as the 1950s there were still nearly 130,000 wild salmon returning to the Snake River alone. Within a lifetime however, these vibrant salmon runs have plummeted below 10,000 and all four salmon and steelhead populations in the Lower Snake River are …