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accommodate some pressure from fishing. your actions may affect the stream and its Willamette is still in effect, and since the ethers are declining and must be protected. salmon, even though you may live miles away challenges did not show the salmon popula- That is why most fishing regulations allow from the nearest stream. Any fertilizers, weed bons to be healthy, Eugene is continuing to keeping only the hatchery fish (marked by a killers, and motor oil you use can wash off in work toward protecting wild chinook salmon clipped fin), while the wild fish must be the rain and enter local streams. If you remove and their habitat. returned to the river unharmed.. Hatchery fish trees or increase the amount of land covered by are raised, in part, to provide fishing opportu- asphalt and concrete, less water will soak into Aren't the darns really the problem? nines throughout Oregon. the ground and more water will flow quickly If we don't get rid of the dams, aren't into the stream when it rains, causing flooding our efforts a waste? How can I tell a wild fish from a and erosion. No matter where you live, you. will Hydroelectric dams and other dams have hatchery fish? still affect salmon in some way. significant negative affects on salmon and The recent listing under the ESA protects wild, their habitat.. Many dams prevent fish from native chinook salmon in the upper Willamette I have heard that we are having reaching spawning streams, while others River basin as a "threatened" species. Hatch- record salmon runs. How can the `change the natural temperature of water above. ery-grown chinook, with few exceptions, are salmon be in danger with record ° and below the dams in ways that are unhealthy not considered wild and are currently not runs? for salmon. While these impacts are serious protected under the ESA listing. Most. (but not Fish populations naturally fluctuate from year and important, they are not the only important all) chinook salmon raised in hatcheries have to year, based upon changes in weather, impacts. Salmon need several kinds of habitat their adipose fins (on top, just in front of the` rainfall, and ocean conditions. The large. in different areas of the watershed in order to tail) clipped to mark them ashatchery-grown. numbers of salmon currently returning to successfully complete their life cycle. Even .rivers in Oregon are primarily hatchery fish without dams, salmon would still need healthy. How will the Endangered Species Act that have benefited from favorable ocean habitat for spawning, resting and rearing, and affect my business? conditions. These ocean conditions have migrating. Important resting and rearing Localbusinesses are most likely to be affected brought important food sources closer to the habitat for juvenile salmon exists in the by changes in the permitting process for new or Oregon coast, which has increasedthe survival Eugene area in the Willamette River and its expanded buildings and facilities near rate of hatchery-bred fish. These large tributaries. If these types of habitat areas are waterways that are important for salmon. numbers of hatchery fish will not necessarily not protected or restored; removing the dams There maybe greater protection of streams, help the wild stocks offish recover, especially if would address only part of the problem. wetlands, and other critical areas, increased the ocean conditions change again for the permit review and enforcement, greater worse. For more information contact: stormwater control requirements, and possibly Neil Bjorklund, mitigation requirements for impacts to salmon I thought that the government was Senior Planner habitat. These provisions have not been sued and that the salmon were no City of Eugene created yet, so the exact details of these impacts longer listed as threatened because.. Planning and Development. are unknown at this point.. If you own property there were plenty of salmon. Why is Department adjacent to the Willamette River or one of its the City still trying to protect them? 99 W. 10`'' Avenue salmon-bearing tributaries, your property may There was a recent legal challenge to the Eugene, OR 97401 be affected by new regulations in the future. If listing of coastal coho salmon under the 682-5507 you request that your name be added to the Endangered Species Act. A federal judge has interested parties list for the salmon program, ruled that the listing should be nullified On the web: wwwci.eugene.or.us/Salmon the City will notify you of meetings and because of an inconsistency with the language N decisions so you can participate and offer your in the ESA. Although a challenge similar to opinions. the one for coastal coho has been filed with ~ f. NOAA Fisheries for the upper Willamette Spring ~ ° If I don't live on a stream or river, chinook, no decision has been reached yet. . ~ will I affect salmon recovery? Neither of these challenges has shown that wild ~ I , „ Salmon habitat really includes the entire stocks of salmon are safe from extinction. ~ ~ ~ ~ watershed, which is all of the land that drains NOAA Fisheries is planning to issue a new to the stream, river or estuary that salmon live policy regarding hatchery fish in the spring of ~ „ - . • . F in. Because streams are very sensitive to 2004 in response to the challenge. Since the TxEix. Suxvrv~, changes in the .land throughout the watershed; ESA listing for spring chinook in the upper Is rrr oux. HAxnS APF7/L 2004