In the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon, the applicants, including the Nez Perce Tribe as well as the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, succeeded in overturning a December 2022 rule that would have allowed the trapping and transportation of migratory fish, such as salmon.

ODFW Migratory Fish Trapping Rule Struck Out

Tribal rights prevailed as Oregon salmon’s natural flow was restored last month after the Appeal Court reinstated Oregon’s long-standing requirement that artificial barriers to fish migration, like dams, be upgraded to allow fish to swim freely. Tidings Data Snapshot Oregon fish passage / statewide scale

582 Barriers on Oregon’s 2019 priority list 85 Priority barriers addressed since 2019 1,460+ Miles of habitat reopened from those f

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