Understanding the Klamath River Tribal Fishery and Allocation
Click Here to read the PDF document by Ronnie M. Pierce from Feb. 1998.
PDF file location online: https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=21976
Readers are reminded that salmon management is a dynamic process; the information provided in this document on harvest rate management and allocations is continually changing. Current information can be obtained from the agency, Tribal, and industry contacts listed on page 5.
Table of Contents:
An Historical Perspective, page 6
Klamath River Tribal Fishing
Aboriginal Fishing
First Indian Commercial Fisheries
Ocean Commercial Fishing
Early Ocean Fisheries
Ocean Recreational Fishing
River Recreational Fishing
Zane Grey Visits the Klamath
Tribal and Non-Tribal Allocation, page 10
Principles of Tribal Fishing Rights
Doctrine of Reserved Rights
Basics of Treaty Interpretation
Review of Local Fishing Rights Legal History
Reservation Status Confirmed
Federal Jurisdiction Confirmed
Parravano v. Babbitt
The Harvest Managers, page 13
Ocean Fisheries
Pacific Fishery Management Council
State Management of Ocean Fisheries
River Fisheries
Tribal Management
River Recreational Management
Cooperative Management
Klamath Fishery Management Council
Typical Management Schedule
Salmon Management Regulatory Flow Schematic
Harvest Rate Management, page 18
Protecting Natural Stocks
Salmon Life History
Natural Stock Policy
Harvest Rate Management
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Fixed Goal vs. Harvest Rate Management
Escapement Rate Goals
Allocation Calculations
Harvest Rate Model
Tribal Process
Monitoring Harvest and Escapement
Ocean Harvest Estimates
Tribal Harvest Estimates
River Recreation Estimates
Escapement Estimates
Klamath River Escapement (Figure 6)
Annual Management Process, page 23
Preseason Predictions
Technical Teams
Information Sharing and Negotiations
Status of the Resource, page 24
Numeric Distribution of Harvest and Escapement (Figure 7)
What is Being Done, page 25
Harvest Management
Habitat Restoration
Other articles that relate to the Klamath River, click on blue links:
• Klamath Dam Removal
• The Klamath River Fish Kill of 2002; Analysis of Contributing Factors, click here
• Who was Ronnie M. Pierce
• Yurok Fisheries, click here
• PBS An oral history of the Salmon Wars, click here
• How the Yurok tribe is reclaiming the river, click here
