Industrial and agricultural pollution and toxic contamination, dams that block fish migration and access to spawning habitat—the decline of salmon, steelhead, sturgeon, and lamprey in the Columbia River is has many causes. To restore the river and the life that depends upon it, the Yakama Nation Fisheries is employing many and varied strategies, simultaneously. In some areas, habitat recovery is the key; in others, supplementation of salmon runs may need to be the driver.
The Yakama Nation's Fisheries Resource Management Program (FRMP) is tasked with managing and carrying out the deliverables for the Tribal Response grant.
***UPDATE*** - The original uploaded Exhibit F - Final Drawings document contained an error in the construction quantities table.
Fisheries Slides for Yakama Nation General Council March 2026.
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The Yakama Nation Upper Columbia Habitat Restoration Project (URCHRP) is a project under the Yakama Nation Fisheries Resource Management Program. The project recieves its principal funding through the Columbia Basin Fish Accords.
The project will work on the West Fork Teanaway Reach RM 5.1 - 7.2. The project will remove old berms and return native material to the streambed. It will place trees in-stream to restore natural geomorphic processes.
In 2016, Yakama Nation staff began working with Washington Department of Ecology to outline a vision for a Columbia River toxics monitoring program.