This award will provide funding to address threats and collect crucial data needed for seafood harvest management under U.S. V. Oregon and subsequent court proceedings on pacific salmon populations…

This award will provide funding to address threats and collect crucial data needed for seafood harvest management under U.S. V. Oregon and subsequent court proceedings on pacific salmon populations within the columbia river watershed of oregon and washington. The purpose of this financial award is to address factors limiting the productivity of pacific salmon, provide fishing opportunities, and ensure seafood harvest is informed by real-time data. Healthy and sustainable populations of pacific salmon are key to the U.S. Commercial fisheries and to the integrity of the domestic seafood supply chain. If this action is not approved, threats to pacific salmon will continue to increase, there will be a reduction in fisheries-related jobs, a reduction in accurate data available to fisheries managers on which to make decisions, reduced fishing opportunities within the columbia river watershed of oregon and washington, and an economic loss to local communities. This financial award will go towards supporting the U.S. Seafood industry, fisheries jobs, and local communities by addressing threats to pacific salmon, modernizing data collection, and achieving efficiencies through the columbia river inter-tribal fish commission. This support will empower columbia river treaty tribes to effectively own, manage, and prioritize fishery management that make americas infrastructure, communities, and economy resilient to global threats.