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


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