Salmon Species Listed Under
the
Federal Endangered Species
Act
| Species | Listing Status |
Date Listed |
Salmon Recovery Region and Counties Affected Within Region | |
| Bull Trout | Columbia River | Threatened | June 1998 | Lower Columbia River All counties |
| Middle Columbia River All counties |
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| Northeast Washington All counties |
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| Snake River All counties |
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| Upper Columbia River All counties |
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| Coastal - Puget Sound | Threatened | November 1999 | Washington Coast All counties except Pacific |
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| Puget Sound All counties except Kitsap, San Juan, Island |
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| Snake River | Threatened | 1998 | ||
| Chinook | Lower Columbia River | Threatened | March 1999 | Lower Columbia River All counties |
| Puget Sound | Threatened | March 1999 | Puget Sound All counties |
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| Snake River spring/summer run | Threatened | April 1992 | Snake River All counties |
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| Snake River fall run | Threatened | April 1992 | Snake River All counties |
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| Upper Columbia River spring run | Endangered | March 1999 | Upper Columbia River All counties |
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| Chum | Hood Canal summer run | Threatened | March 1999 | Hood Canal All counties |
| Lower Columbia River | Threatened | March 1999 | Lower Columbia River All counties |
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| Coho | Lower Columbia River | Threatened | June 2005 | Lower Columbia River All counties |
| Sockeye | Snake River | Endangered | November 1991 | Snake River Note: Sockeye do not reside in the region but migrate through the Snake River |
| Lake Ozette | Threatened | March 1999 | Washington Coast Clallam |
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| Steelhead | Lower Columbia River | Threatened | March 1998 | Lower Columbia River All counties |
| Middle Columbia River | Threatened | March 1999 | Middle Columbia River All counties |
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| Puget Sound | Threatened | May 2007 | Puget Sound All counties |
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| Snake River | Threatened | August 1997 | Snake River All counties |
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| Upper Columbia River | Threatened | June 2009 | Upper Columbia River All counties |
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The Endangered Species Act defines a “species” to include any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate fish or wildlife. For Pacific salmon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Marine Fisheries Service uses an evolutionarily significant unit (ESU) as its definition of species under the Endangered Species Act. An ESU is a population or group of populations of salmon that is substantially reproductively isolated from other populations and contributes substantially to the evolutionary legacy of the biological species. For steelhead and bull trout, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delineate distinct population segments as species under the Endangered Species Act.
July 2009
