• Peak harvest (pre-1920) of NW salmon: 240 million lbs.
• Harvest levels in the last decade: 10 million lbs.
• Percent of native trout, steelhead, salmon extinct in the Northwest: 50%
• Number of salmon, steelhead populations currently at risk: 314
• Number of dams on the Columbia River system: 79
• Percent of Columbia River juvenile chinook, steelhead lost annually from dams: 93%
• Number of unscreened irrigation water diversions: 3,000
• Number of hatchery salmon, steelhead, trout smolts released annually in Oregon: 90 million
• Number of hatchery smolts that return as adults: 1 in 1,000
• Number of Oregon Fish & Wildlife employees engaged in hatchery production of fish: 271
• Number of Oregon Fish & Wildlife employees engaged in wild fish management: 22
• Value of salmonid fishery in the Northwest: $1 billion
• Number of NW jobs related to salmon, trout, steelhead: 30,000
• Percent of water in the Deschutes River basin used by irrigation and livestock: 96%
• Percent of Deschutes basin residents employed in agriculture: 5%

Terms to know:

• Salmonid--The family of fish to which salmon, trout and steelhead belong.
• Wild fish--Native stocks. Fish that have always been here evolving, adapting to nature, asopposed to artificially bred hatchery fish.
• Riparian zones--Border areas between the stream and bank; riverbank habitats. Areas that needa lot of protection if wild fish are to thrive.
• Habitat--For us, anyplace a wild fish lives.
• Gene conservation--Keeping wild fish genes strong, true, and unweakened by hatcheryintermingling.
• Salmon Watch--Oregon Trout's environmental education program for middle and high schoolstudents.