Oregon Dems to Trump Administration: The Salmon Fishery Needs the Promised Funding
Oregon Democratic lawmakers want the salmon industry to get the money it’s due in disaster funding.
Members of the delegation, including Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, and Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle, Maxine Dexter, Andrea Salinas and Janelle Bynum, are pressing the Trump Administration to release the $7 million that was allocated to Oregon for the catastrophic regional fishery failure declared back in 2018, 2019, and 2020 for the state’s Chinook salmon commercial ocean fisheries.
Then-Gov. Kate Brown had requested that the government determine the...
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