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Sport Fall Chinook Season On Lower Deschutes River Begins Aug. 1
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
— 7/17/2006
THE DALLES — The mid-Columbia Steelhead Sounding Board, a stakeholder group providing input on recovery planning for mid-Columbia Steelhead listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will meet July 26 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. at The Dalles Screen Shop/Hood River Research building, 3561 Klindt Drive.
The sounding board will discuss the gap between current status and viability of the species, limiting factors for steelhead, and begin reviewing management actions to address limiting factors in the recovery planning process. Members of the team represent fish conservation, fishing, private land, timber, agricultural, tribal, local governments, State and Federal agencies, and other interests.
The mid-Columbia recovery plan is one of four plans being developed in Oregon to address the threatened status of coho, steelhead, chum and chinook. Other plans are being produced for the lower Columbia, upper Willamette and Snake River recovery areas.
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife representatives are working with NOAA Fisheries technical recovery teams to finalize assessment of the current status of listed species, define the gap between current status and de-listing criteria and set recovery goals. Rich Carmichael, Program Director of Fish Research at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, is leading the recovery plan effort for mid-Columbia steelhead. A progress report for the mid-Columbia steelhead recovery planning effort is posted on the NOAA Web site (http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/Salmon-Recovery-planning) and a draft recovery plan will be available for public review in December 2006.
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