What is
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doing about salmon?
The
Pacific Region of the Fish and Wildlife Service conducts a wide array
of fish and wildlife resource management and restoration activities
in the West that benefit salmon restoration and recovery. We are one
of the few federal agencies funded to implement restoration activities
across the landscape.
We fund or operate more than 45 fish hatcheries and associated production facilities
that are:
- Coordinating with habitat
restoration and harvest management efforts to assist in rebuilding
naturally spawning populations of salmon and steelhead;
- Phasing locally
adapted stocks into our hatchery broodstocks and changing management
practices to ensure hatchery operations are compatible with wild
stock protection;
- Developing captive broodstock
and stocking programs to recover threatened and endangered species;
- Continuing to release
more than 200 million fish annually to meet federal fishery mitigation
responsibilities.
We implement more than 30
on-the-ground habitat restoration programs protecting and conserving
aquatic, estuarine, wetland and associated terrestrial habitats, such
as:
- Instream flow conservation,
fish passage improvement and fish screening programs for important
river systems such as the Columbia, Snake, Yakima, Sacramento, Trinity,
and others;
- The Partners for Fish
and Wildlife Program, which works with local land owners to protect
and restore habitat on agricultural land;
- Our Coastal Program, which
works to restore habitat in coastal and estuarine areas
- An environmental
contaminants program that works with other state and federal agencies
to mitigate for environmental impacts;
- Our National
Wildlife Refuge efforts to protect and restore important salmon
habitats
We provide scientific support, data analysis and funding in many
salmon harvest management forums to ensure harvest is managed appropriately
to conserve wild and hatchery stocks and meet federal obligations
to conserve anadromous fish species and trust responsibilities
to Native American tribes.
To
learn more explore these links:
Lower
Columbia River Fish Health Center
Columbia
River Fisheries Program Office
Federal
Caucus on Salmon Recovery
FWS's
Pacific Region Fishery Resources Program
To learn more about the
nine federal agencies responsible for salmon recovery see these links:
Federal
Caucus on Salmon Recovery - The Agencies of the Federal Caucus and
their Responsibilities
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