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The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: Wimahl or Wimal; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. [14] The river forms in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) is a fishery resource for the treaty tribes of the Columbia River.Under the treaty, the native tribes, the Nez Perce Tribe, Warm Springs Reservation Tribe, and Umatilla Indian Reservation Tribe, have to the right to fish in the Columbia River, which means their fishery must be reserved and protected.
The bridgelip sucker (Catostomus columbianus) is a fish in the family Catostomidae that occupies the Columbia River system. Like all sucker fish, they live only in fresh water . Bridgelip suckers have a tendency to live in deeper waters during the day and move into shallower water around evening time.
Pend Oreille River (British Columbia, Washington, Idaho; see below for sub-tributaries) Kootenay River (British Columbia, Idaho, Montana; see below for sub-tributaries) Hugh Keenleyside Dam and Arrow Lakes (British Columbia)
These supersalmon were capable of swimming over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) up the Columbia River and into Canada. [3] The name "June hog" derives from the seasonality of the runs and their size. [4] It is said that these Chinook salmon had massive amounts of energy reserves. They also produced large amounts of offspring.
The Columbia River Estuary is an extremely biodiverse system, playing host (at some stage in their lifetime or another) to over 70 species of fish, hundreds of species of birds and many reptiles, mammals and amphibians. The number of invertebrate species has not been counted. [15]
Indonesia is a country with vast amount of freshwater fish species; it is the country with the third-largest number of freshwater fish species in the world, with a total of 1155 species. And about 440 species are endemic to Indonesia. This makes Indonesia as the 4th country with the largest endemic freshwater fish species, with Brazil (1716 ...