. BPA proposed fiscal year 1994 budget : oversight hearing before the Task Force on Bonneville Power Administration of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on the Bonneville Power Administration's proposed fiscal year 1994 budget, hearing held in Washington, DC, April 28, 1993. United States. Bonneville Power Administration; Water resources development -- Law and legislation United States; Federal aid to water resources development -- United States; Salmon -- Spawning Columbia River Watershed; Fisheries subsidies -- Columbia R
. BPA proposed fiscal year 1994 budget : oversight hearing before the Task Force on Bonneville Power Administration of the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, on the Bonneville Power Administration's proposed fiscal year 1994 budget, hearing held in Washington, DC, April 28, 1993. United States. Bonneville Power Administration; Water resources development -- Law and legislation United States; Federal aid to water resources development -- United States; Salmon -- Spawning Columbia River Watershed; Fisheries subsidies -- Columbia River Watershed; United States -- Appropriations and expenditures. I'ACIPIC NORTHWEST WHO SALMON CAMPAIGN Northwest Office 1516 Melrose Ave. Seattle WA 98122 (206)621-1696 Columbia Basin Field Office Route 2. Box 303-A Pullman WA 99163 (509) 332-5173. WHAT THE BALD EAGLE is to the nation, wild salmon are to the Pacific Northwest. But tragically this noble symbol of our region is slipping to the brink of extinction. The American Fisher- ies Society counts more than 200 stocks of wild salmon, steelhead and ocean-migrating trout as en- dangered, threatened, or at risk in the Northwest. Before the era of big hydro- power development began in the Depression with the erection of Bonneville Dam, the greatest salmon watershed on the entire Pacific Ocean—the Columbia River Basin— annually saw 16 million adults enter the river headed for spawning beds as far upstream as Canada and central Idaho. Today the number has slipped to some 2 million fish. Of these, at best 300,000 are wild salmon; the rest are hatchery stocks. With the decline of salmon, we lose more than a regional sym- bol and sufier more than another erosion of environmental quality. The demise of salmon runs is a dollars-and-cents loss as well when an en- tire regional fishing industry is at risk, including commercial operations which, in many cases, have been passed down for genera- tions. Even with the severe de- clines
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