Now is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Oregonians to weigh in on the public investments YOU want our state to make to build resilience for salmon, steelhead, and trout in the face of a changing climate.
Currently, ODFW is conducting a survey to gauge the public’s support for investing public funds to update its ailing state hatchery facilities. Under various alternatives, the state would need over $200 million to consolidate the hatchery system, fix crumbling infrastructure, expand facilities, and add climate change adaptation technologies like solar panels and water chillers. The majority of these hatchery facilities release fish into free-flowing coastal rivers – the very places where we should be prioritizing wild fish.
We believe that fish and Oregonians would be much better off by investing more of these funds in nature, not concrete. By removing culverts not adding pellets. By investing in healthy forests and shade, not chillers.
