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Tribe’s fish study is ‘a call to alarm’
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Nearly half of the wild
spring chinook populations in
the Snake River Basin have
crossed a critical threshold,
signaling they are nearing ex-
tinction and without interven-
tion may not persist, accord-
ing to analysis by the Nez
Perce Tribe.
Modeling conducted by
fisheries scientists at the
tribe and shared with other
state, federal and tribal fish-
eries managers in the Co-
lumbia Basin indicates if
current trends continue, 77
percent of Snake River
spring chinook populations
and 44 percent of steelhead
Veto sought
for wolf-
killing bill
Nearly 30 retired tribal,
state and federal wildlife man-
agers sent a letter last week
to Idaho Republican Gov.
Brad Little asking him to veto
a bill backed by agricultural
interests that could cut the
state’s wolf population by 90
percent.
The former workers at the
Idaho Department of Fish
and Game, U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service, U.S. Bureau of
Land Management, Nez
Perce Tribe, U.S. Ar my
Corps of Engineers, Univer-
sity of Idaho and U.S. Forest
Service say the methods for
killing wolves allowed in the
measure violate long-standing
wildlife management practices
and sportsmen ethics.
populations will be in a
similar position within four
years.
Tribal fisheries officials
say a wide array of short-
and long-term actions, such
as new conservation hatch-
eries, predator control, in-
creased spill at Snake and
Columbia river dams, and
adoption of Rep. Mike
Simpson’s plan to breach the
four lower Snake River
dams, are urgently needed.
Fisheries officials in Or-
egon and Washington agree
dam removal should be con-
sidered and other actions
above and beyond current
salmon and steelhead re-
covery efforts should be
pursued.
The tribe found 42 per-
cent of Snake River spring
chinook and 19 percent of
steelhead have reached the
quasi-extinction threshold—
an analytical tool used by the
federal government to assess
the risk of extinction or mea-
sure the viability of fish
populations.
The threshold is tripped
when a natural origin popu-
lation of fish has 50 or fewer
spawners return to natal
streams for four consecutive
years.