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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
March 16, 2016
Around Indian Country
Lamprey return above dam site
Pacific lamprey have re-
turned to the White Salmon
River above the former site
of Condit Dam.
The fact that the lamprey
have been found above the
former dam location signals
an important step forward in
habitat restoration, lamprey
conservation and partnership
in the Columbia River Basin,
officials with the Yakama
Nation and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service said.
“This is a good day,” said
Patrick Luke, Yakama Nation
Tribal Councilman.
“We are recognizing asum
(lamprey) making their
mighty return to Mitula Wana
(White Salmon).”
Sometimes referred to as
the forgotten fish, Pacific lam-
prey are a traditional food
source for the Native people,
as well as a wide variety of
wildlife species.
They spend their early
years nestled in creek beds
before transforming into
parasitic adults that migrate
to the ocean to feed for years
before returning to spawn.
While not endangered,
populations of lamprey are
dropping dramatically across
the Columbia Basin, in part
because adult lamprey
struggle to use the fish lad-
ders designed for salmon at
hydropower dams.
Staff from the Yakama
Nation and the Fish and Wild-
life Service began monitoring
lamprey distribution in the
basin in 2007.
Prior to the 2011 removal
of Condit Dam—which
blocked passage of upstream
migrating fish for more than
100 years—surveys found no
Pacific lamprey above the
dam, only below.
Last summer, as part of
the post dam removal moni-
toring, the wildlife service
surveyed for lamprey in sev-
eral watersheds as well as the
mainstem of the White
Salmon River above and be-
low the former dam site.
Pacific lamprey were
found at three locations up-
stream of the former dam
site, in areas previously inun-
dated by Northwestern Res-
ervoir.
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