From Native Fish Society
We urgently require your aid to safeguard North Umpqua’s wild summer season steelhead– inform lawmakers to oppose SB 512! A vital hearing on SB 512 is this Thursday (Feb. 6) at 1pm. This costs would require the state to reboot a damaging summer season steelhead hatchery program on the North Umpqua River. This is a bad concept.
In 2022– after continual advocacy from Native Fish Society, our partners, and wild fish supporters like you– the ODFW Commission sensibly ended this exact same stopped working program due to dropping wild steelhead numbers. Rebooting it will even more hurt these renowned fish. Plus, the proposed hatchery is a burnt-out center doing not have the facilities required to run the program and dealing with continuous water quality issues– all of that make it a bad place for taxpayer financial investments.
We highly oppose SB 512 and require your instant action to make our voices heard. Do something about it now to safeguard wild summer season steelhead– Please sign the Action Alert to State Lawmakers at the link listed below!
Wish to do a lot more for our renowned summer season steelhead? Here’s how:
- Contact your State Lawmakers straight to interact your issues to your state agents.
- Find your state representative or state senator.
- Call or e-mail: Inform them you oppose SB 512. A short, individual message is best. You can state something like: “I prompt you to oppose SB 512. Rebooting a summertime steelhead hatchery program will reverse efforts to recuperate the North Umpqua’s wild steelhead. And after it burned to the ground, the Rock Creek Hatchery stays an awful area to invest taxpayer cash.”
- Sign up to testify in person or virtually.
- Wish to make a huge effect? Join us on Thursday at 1pm to affirm to the committee. Advanced sign-up is needed here. Click the link and after that pick “Register to Affirm” in the grey bar towards the top.
- Submit Written Testimony.
- Offering short, composed statement to the general public record can assist reveal the groundswell of public assistance for sound wild fish management. Send composed statement by 1pm on February 8 by clicking the link and picking “Send Statement” in the grey bar towards the top.
- Spread the Word! Share this alert with your network– household, pals, associates– and motivate them to act. The more voices we have, the more powerful our message will be.
Do not miss this chance to defend Oregon’s wild fish! Let’s interact to protect Oregon’s wild fish and rivers for generations to come!
Wild is the Future,
Jennifer Fairbrother
Legal and Policy Director
jennifer@nativefishsociety.org
