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 Environmental Policy Act, the Pacific Northwest Electric Power 

 Planning and Conservation Act, and the Pacific Salmon Treaty Act. 

 These authorities support our role to protect, mitigate, and 

 enhance anadromous fishery resources in all aspects of their life 

 cycle. 



Additionally, NMFS actively participates as a member of regional 

 task forces and other salmon oriented groups, including the 

 Klamath River Management Council and reviews activities 

 associated with Federal lands and hydropower operations that have 

 the potential to affect anadromous fish or their habitat. Also, 

 NMFS is directly involved in managing ocean and in-river 

 fisheries and Columbia River Basin hatchery production which 

 affect non-treaty commercial and recreational fisheries and 

 tribal commercial, ceremonial and subsistance treaty fisheries. 

 In this context, NMFS encourages the protection and enhancement 

 of anadromous fish habitat. We strive to restore and improve the 

 productive capacity of all anadromous fish habitat, not just that 

 of species listed under the Endangered Species Act. This is 

 accomplished by working in cooperation with other Federal and 

 state fisheries agencies and tribes. 



Under the Endangered Species Act, NMFS has three major roles in 

 the protection and recovery of Pacific salmon. The first is 

 deciding if a species should be listed as threatened or 

 endangered and, if so, promptly designating its critical habitat. 



