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 Spirit of the Salmon
The Columbia River Anadromous Fish Restoration Plan
of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama Tribes
Scope:
The plan covers the following fish that spawn in areas above Bonneville Dam: chinook, sockeye, steelhead, coho, and chum salmon; Pacific lamprey; and white sturgeon. The geographic scope of the plan extends to the Columbia River Basin and Pacific ocean regions where these fish migrate and wherever activities occur that directly affect them.
Objectives:
The plan's objectives are to halt the decline of salmon, lamprey and sturgeon populations above Bonneville Dam within seven years. To rebuild salmon populations to annual run sizes of four million above Bonneville Dam within 25 years in a manner that supports tribal ceremonial, subsistence and commercial harvests. To increase lamprey and sturgeon to naturally sustaining levels within 25 years in a manner that supports tribal harvests. To achieve these objectives, the plan emphasizes strategies and principles that rely on natural production and healthy river systems.
Simply stated, the plan's purpose is to put fish back in the rivers and protect the watersheds where fish live.
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The sacred salmon runs are in decline. It is the moral duty, therefore, of the Indian people of the Columbia River to see them restored. We have to take care of them so that they can take care of us. Entwined together inextricably, no less now than ever before, are the fates of both the salmon and the Indian people. The quest for salmon recovery is about restoring what is sacred to its sacred place.
Ted Strong, Yakama
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