This award will provide funding to address threats and collect crucial data needed on pacific salmon populations within the klamath river watershed of oregon and california

The purpose of this financial award is to address factors limiting the productivity of pacific salmon, provide FI shing 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 FI shing opportunities within the klamath river watershed of oregon and california, 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 klamath river inter-tribal fish and water commission. This support will empower klamath river tribes to effectively own, manage, and prioritize fishery management that make americas infrastructure, communities, and economy resilient to global threats.