Columbia River mainly as a result of dam and other water 

 development projects to this huge watershed. Working by contracts 

 with the State agencies, 86 fishways, over 720 fish screens, and 21 

 fish hatcheries were constructed. 



BSFW's Coastal Anadromous Fish Program is concerned with the 

 restoration of Atlantic salmon, striped bass, steelhead, and Pacific 

 salmon, and all anadromous fish that have an impact on improving 

 Indian self-reliance. To support this program BSFW hatcheries will 

 produce and distribute approximately 35 million anadromous fish: 

 710,000 Atlantic salmon, 32,000,000 steelhead and Pacific salmon, 

 2,000,000 striped bass, and 500,000 other anadromous fish. 



BSFW supports hatchery operations, construction, research, and 

 management and provides grant-in-aid assistance to the States. In 

 its Pacific salmon hatchery program, BSFW operates 13 national fish 

 hatcheries and one fish screen facility, and is constructing two new 

 hatcheries. Six of the operating hatcheries are funded solely by 

 BSFW, one by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, three by NMFS, 

 two jointly by two of these three agencies, and one by all three. In 

 addition to these facilities, BSFW operates six hatcheries on the east 

 coast which produce Atlantic salmon. 



The success of the program was demonstrated by extensive fish 

 tagging programs, conducted by both BSFW and NMFS, which 

 showed that 70 percent of the coho salmon returns, both sport and 

 commercial fishing, come from the 21 hatcheries funded by NMFS 

 and operated by BSFW and the States. Fifty percent of the chinook 

 salmon returns come from hatcheries. 



Salmon catches from the Columbia River, which dropped to an 

 alltime low in 1960 of only 10 million pounds, have rebounded to a 

 catch of over 30 million pounds in 1973. Coho salmon have a return 

 rate of 7:1 for every dollar invested in rearing them; chinook salmon 

 have a return rate of about 3:1. The gain in food production in the 

 form of high-grade protein is also noteworthy. Eight pounds offish 

 in the commercial fisheries are produced by one pound of feed 

 expended at the hatchery to feed young coho salmon. The gain is 

 even higher, 10:1, with chinook salmon. 



Allocation 



The resolution of conflicts over fishery resources is essential to 

 their conservation and continued productivity. Consequently, a 

 major effort is being made to allocate fishery resources among 

 competing domestic interests and to develop effective mechanisms 

 for international fisheries management and allocation. 



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