Chronology of Salmon Decline Science & Research

CHRONOLOGY OF SALMON DECLINE
IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER
1779 TO THE PRESENT

Based on the historical record
By Bill M. Bakke, Director Native Fish Society

Native salmonid populations have been on the decline in the Pacific Northwest virtually since Captain James Cook found the Columbia River and started trading beaver pelts. The declines have become more dramatic in the past two decades as the cumulative impacts of dams, logging, commercial fishing, mismanagement and other human, economic and social factors have stacked against native fish. Get a full chronology of the decline of salmon in the Columbia River system below.
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