Category – Fish and wildlife

<ombumedia data-ombumedia="{"fid":"14936","link":"","link_options":0,"position":"default","view_mode":"full","title":"CRITFCCommissionMeetingNotes_Final.pdf","type":"image"}"></ombumedia>The Northwest Power and Conservation Council Members were asked to join the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) Commissioners Meeting in July 2013. Notes were taken of the meeting discussion. A follow-up meeting is planned for the Fall.

Meacham Creek in the Umatilla River Basin, northeast Oregon

The Council this week begins a once-every-five-years process of reviewing the largest regional fish and wildlife program in the nation, one that last year paid for nearly

In a presentation to the Council today, Portland State University researchers who have been studying the potential for freshwater mussels to take hold in the Columbia River Basin say water chemistry and temperature are sufficient, if not ideal, to support

A report on the importance of food webs to ecosystem health and fish restoration efforts in the Columbia River Basin, written by the Council's Independent Scientific Advisory Board last year, has recently been published as an article for an

The Council has recommended construction of a new hatchery to boost production of Snake River sockeye salmon, an endangered species, and continue a long-term effort to rebuild the population to naturally spawning, self-sustaining levels.

We've reported on the threat of invasive quagga mussels in an earlier post, and it looks like that threat has never been greater. Forty-one barges are set to arrive in Seattle, Washington, and they appear to be infested with the

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s panel of independent scientists recently completed a review of 71 projects to implement the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program over the next several years, finding that just 14 of them “meet

There's a common perception that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's decision to allow Oregon, Washington, and Idaho to kill California sea lions at Bonneville Dam addresses the fish predation problem there. But right now, most of the damage is