Columbia Basin Regional Lamprey Summit II

Willamette Falls is still an important lamprey harvest location for the region's tribes.

Pacific lamprey, once teeming in the hundreds of thousands, have seen its numbers plunge in face of obstacles such as dams, pollution and habitat loss. The eel-like animal has suffered additional decline from serving as the bait of choice for anglers seeking to reel in other catch including white sturgeon and smallmouth bass.

The Regional Lamprey Summit II provided a forum for regional resource managers to explore opportunities to work collaboratively on lamprey restoration. This summit was a follow-up to the 2004 Regional Lamprey Summit that addressed the following topics:

Assess obstacles to lamprey survival and reproduction
Improve dam operations to increase lamprey passage
Stock additional lamprey in its natural habitat
Develop a common vision for lamprey recovery
Compile current lamprey research and create a unified restoration plan to gain Congressional support.

Summit workproducts:

All files below are in PDF.

Attendee list (100 KB)
Meeting Summary (108 KB)
Tribal Pacific Lamprey Restoration Plan for the Columbia River Basin (4.1 MB)
Restoration Plan Appendix (372 KB)

Please make comments on the restoration plan by August 10, 2008.

Words of our Leaders

"Lamprey is our sacred food. We will never let it go."

Bernice Mitchell
Warm Springs elder

Questions?


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