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NORTHWEST SALMON AT A CROSSROADS

Northwest Salmon are at a crossroads, the signs read survival and extinction.  Left to themselves they would choose survival but they are not left to themselves.  The decline in number of salmon is precipitous.  120 years ago the Columbia Basin produced 16 million wild salmon.  Today the yield is just 4 to 7% of that.  The true index of what is gone is the loss of stocks.  There are 106 major populations or stocks of pacific salmon that are now extinct, 102 are at high risk of extinction, 58 are at moderate risk and 54 are of special concern.  We need the seed bank of these wild stocks to replenish the salmon population.

The common threat to the salmon is human activity, hydropower, navigation, mining, logging, fishing and urban growth.

The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs urges enactment of legislation that guarantees adequate waste supplies and mitigation programs to reverse the decline in fish populations and restore river and wetland habitat.













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