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Select Area Fisheries Enhancement Project



The following comments were submitted in response to the open comment period described below.

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Bonneville is proposing to fund the SAFE Program to achieve maximum production levels of Chinook and coho salmon as proposed from three fishery co-managers (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Clatsop County Fisheries) and as authorized by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The SAFE Program would rear, acclimate, and release up to 4.25 million spring Chinook salmon smolts and 4.3 million coho salmon at four in-water net pen sites in off-channel areas (Select Areas) in the Lower Columbia River estuary located between river miles 10.0 and 27.0 (Figure 1). Eventually, these fish would return to these Select Areas for commercial and recreational harvest. Thus, the SAFE Program’s overall objective would be protection of natural origin salmon through reduced harvest pressure. Your comments will help BPA determine the issues that should be addressed in the environmental review.

For More Information:
http://www.bpa.gov/nepa/safe

Close of comment:  2/2/2024

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