Columbia River Basin (CRB)
Anadromous and Resident Fish

Welcome

In 1994, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (FS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [hereafter jointly referred to as “the Agencies”] developed an ecosystem-based, aquatic habitat and riparian-area management strategy (commonly referred to as PACFISH) for Pacific salmon, steelhead, and sea-run cutthroat trout habitat on lands they administer.

The strategy was developed in response to information documenting broad declines in naturally reproducing Pacific salmon, steelhead, and sea-run cutthroat trout [hereafter referred to as anadromous fish], and widespread degradation of habitat upon which these anadromous fish depend.

This environmental assessment analyzes a range of interim strategies for arresting the degradation and beginning the restoration of aquatic and riparian ecosystems during the next 18 months while a longer-term strategy is developed and evaluated. (- source Decision Notice/Decision Record, FONSI, Environmental Assessment (PACFISH Document, pg 1 (context slightly modified)) Dated: February 1994 by the BLM and FS).