The Klamath Basin Coalition -- Fact Sheets

BEFORE The Klamath Basin was once the third most productive salmon river system in the U.S. The photo above was taken of the commerical fishing boat landing at Fort Bragg, CA just before the start of salmon fishing season in April 1980. Once a booming salmon port, Fort Bragg is now one of many coastal salmon ports along 200 miles of coastline now all but closed to protect weakened Klamath Basin chinook and coho salmon.



	AFTER Commercial fishing boat land for Fort Bragg, CA during the same place and time of year, but in 2002. This and many other once-productive salmon ports from Fort Bragg, CA to Coos Bay, OR are now virtually closed to salmon fishing because of too little water coming down the Klamath River to support harvestable runs. Coho salmon in the Basin are now so depressed they are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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THE KLAMATH BASIN COALITION
	RESOURCES AND FOR MORE INFORMATION
DEVASTATED DOWNRIVER AND COASTAL FISHING COMMUNITIES Photos and Causes of the Massive Fish Kill of September 2002 Chinook Salmon Suffer Massive Dieoff California Dept. of Fish & Game Report on the 2002 Fish Kill The Pacific Fisheries Management Council on Klamath Flows DRIED-UP NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES The Dewatering of the National Wildlife Refuges ECONOMICS OF UPPER BASIN AGRICULTURE ECONorthwest Report on Upper Klamath Agriculture Ratepayer Rip-Off: Electric Power Subsidies in the Klamath Irrigation Project Crisis Profiteering: Inequities and Excesses of the 2001 Klamath Project Bailout ECONOMICS OF LOWER BASIN FISHERIES US Geological Survey Study of the Importance of Lower River Fisheries Economies(2.4 MB) US GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT SITES Klamath Project Bureau of Reclamation Office CURRENT ON-LINE WATER DATA NRCS Water & Climate Center-Klamath Basin USGS Flow Gage Data at Iron Gate Dam USGS Flow Gate Data at Link River Diversion USGS "Waterwatch" Flow Gate Data Maps SNOTEL Rainfall & Snowpack Maps Real-Time Lake Hydrology Data from the Klamath Project MORE KLAMATH INFORMATION FROM COALITION MEMBER WEB SITES