This award will provide funding to address threats on california coastal chinook salmon, northern california steelhead, and southern oregon/northern california coho salmon within californias third…

This award will provide funding to address threats on california coastal chinook salmon, northern california steelhead, and southern oregon/northern california coho salmon within californias third largest watershed, a high production area of pacific salmon. The purpose of this financial award is to research eradication technologies and modernize data collection that informs fishery management decisions. 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 northern 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 predation threats to pacific salmon and modernizing data collection. This support will fill a critical information GAP in the south fork EEL river, a high productivity watershed for pacific salmon that is crucial to commercial, sport, and subsistence fisheries.