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Klamath
Fishery Management Council
The Klamath Act expired on October 1, 2006, and was not reauthorized by Congress. The funding for this program was eliminated and the charter was discontinued. The information on this site is provided for reference, and will be revised to reflect efforts in the near future.
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Our contact mailing address:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Yreka Fish and Wildlife Office
1829 S. Oregon Street
Yreka, California 96097
Phone: 530-842-5763
Fax: 530-842-4517
Email: yreka@fws.gov
The Klamath River Basin Conservation Area Restoration
Program was established in 1986 under Public Law 99-552, (known as the Klamath
Act) to restore the anadromous fish, primarily salmon and steelhead, of
the Klamath River Basin. The Klamath Act authorized that $21,000,000 be
appropriated for the program over twenty years, and it established two federal
advisory committees: Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task
Force and the Klamath Fishery Management Council.
The Klamath Fishery Management Council (KFMC) is an 11-member federal advisory
committee that brings together commercial and recreational fishermen, Native
American tribes, and state and federal agencies to work by consensus to
manage harvests and ensure continued viable populations of anadromous fish
in the Klamath Basin. The KFMC has developed a long-term
plan for the management of in-river and ocean harvest of Klamath Basin
anadromous fish. Members include representatives
from commercial and recreational ocean fisheries, the in-river sport fishing
community, tribal fisheries, and agencies (the California Department of
Fish and Game, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, National Marine Fisheries
Service, and U.S. Department of the Interior).
The KFMC meets three times each spring to
review the past year’s harvest of Chinook salmon, and to review
predictions of Chinook salmon ocean abundance and harvests in the upcoming
year developed by their Technical Advisory Team.
The KFMC then makes specific recommendations to the agencies that regulate
the harvest of Klamath Basin fish. These agencies include the Pacific
Fishery Management Council (a regional body that develops ocean fishing
regulations for the Pacific Coast), California Fish and Game Commission,
Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife, Yurok Tribal Fisheries, and Hoopa
Tribal Fisheries. KFMC recommendations to the Pacific Fishery Management
Council are used to develop ocean salmon fishing seasons. The Pacific
Fishery Management Council then passes its recommended fishing seasons
to the Department of Commerce, which has final authority in setting regulations
for the ocean fishery.
The KFMC also holds a fall meeting. At that
meeting members hear the results of scientific studies, and discuss ways
of improving management. They address issues such as hatchery practices,
fishery monitoring, salmon sub-stocks, endangered species listings and
harvest allocation.
The public is invited to attend all KFMC
meetings, and public comment periods are scheduled throughout the meeting
agenda.
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