• Snake River stocks have been among the hardest hit in the Columbia Basin
• 1986: The Snake River Coho was declared extinct.
• 2002: Only 19 percent of the total Snake River steelhead were wild, self-sustaining fish.
• 2006: Just three Snake River sockeye reached their Idaho spawning grounds.
• 2007: Two male and two female sockeye arrived at Redfish Lake as of October 2007.
• All remaining Snake River stocks are listed as threatened or endangered under the ESP.
• The Snake River supported more than half of the total steelhead and spring/summer Chinook production from the entire Columbia Basin.
• NOAA Fisheries estimates that steelhead recovery will be achieved with returns of 54,000 adults for eight consecutive years. Steelhead returns have not met that figure in a single year since the 1980’s.
• Number of large dams in the Columbia-Snake Basin: 220
• Total number of dams in the Columbia-Snake Basin: 440
• Number of dams salmon and fishing advocates seek to remove: 4 (on the lower Snake River in the State of Washington)
Facts compiled and published by: Joseph Bogaard, “Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition”
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