What is the Snake River Salmon Society?
The SRSS is a regional Political Action Committee, with the specific goal of advancing political leaders who support, or will support recovery of wild salmon populations in the Snake/Columbia River systems.
Our members are fishermen and women, many of whom grew up fishing with parents and grandparents from Astoria, Oregon, upriver to Stanley, Idaho. We are workers, business owners, students, doctors, dentists, attorneys, professionals, military people, and retirees. We are members of pro-salmon conservation and fishing groups; we live in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, and other states.
We want to take our kids and grandkids fishing for wild salmon in future years, in our home states. • SRSS members pool money from memberships and donors to make direct contributions to political candidates in NW States. Priority goes to federal campaigns – for the US Congress and US Senate – since federal policy is the key in salmon recovery plans, most of which cross state lines. • We are governed by a Steering Committee who supervises the organization, affirms organizational goals, and approves all political contributions. • We comply with all rules and regulations of the Federal Election Commission.
The Snake Salmon Society seeks members throughout the Pacific Northwest, solicits donations, and makes political contributions to candidates who support wild salmon recovery and work to address actual limiting factors for wild salmon populations in the Snake River. The Snake River Basin has been identified as a key salmon stronghold in the region, and now comprises about 70% of the region’s salmon recovery potential.
Background: In the Columbia River Basin (historically the greatest producer of salmon in the world), the Snake River is the key to recovery today. The Snake River once produced over half of all the Chinook salmon and summer steelhead in the entire Columbia Basin; and today, with northwest salmon in crisis, the Snake River now comprises the primary opportunity to recover salmon basin-wide in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Biologists estimate that the Snake River Basin contains 70% of the entire region’s salmon recovery potential – a consequence of vast river
