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the mid klamath
Mid-Klamath Fisheries Resource Recovery Plan
The Klamath River Fisheries Task Force determined the need for
individual recovery plans from the Klamath River subbasins that were
identified in their 1991 Long Range Plan (Kier Associates, 1991).
The Mid Klamath subbasin is defined as the portion of the Klamath
River watershed and its tributary watersheds between Iron Gate Dam
(river mile 190.1) and the Trinity River confluence (river mile
43.4), excluding the Shasta, Scott and Salmon Rivers.
The primary goal for this plan is to improve the Middle Klamath
River subbasin contribution to the Klamath River Basin’s anadromous
fish populations. This working draft identifies actions needed
including on-the-ground manipulation of impaired aquatic and
terrestrial conditions as well as more passive protection of
unimpaired conditions.
Aquatic conditions and fisheries resources in the Klamath Basin
have steadily declined for the past 150 years, and more rapidly
during the past 50 years. The Klamath River fishery has a very
complex and wide variety of problems, and public concerns about
deteriorating salmon stocks have heightened in light of a recent
large-scale fish kill that occurred in the Klamath River system in
2002. This plan, however, only addresses problems within the scope
of the Middle Klamath subbasin. Basin-wide fisheries recovery will
take a cooperative planned effort from all Klamath River subbasins
and stakeholders.
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