… Earlier this year, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, jointly offered a $5.9 million grant for tribal salmon restoration and called for tribes to apply for the competitive funding. … But because salmon had been extirpated from Klamath ancestral territory for 114 years, the federal government did not consider them a restoration tribe. … Fortunately, the tribes’ downriver relatives had their back; Mike Belchik, the Yurok Tribe’s senior fisheries biologist, moved to assist. … The BIA awarded the grant jointly between the Yurok Tribe, the Klamath Tribes, and Oregon Fish and Wildlife. Belchik said the Yurok Tribe will act as a pass-through, sending the money to the Klamath Tribes and serving in an administrative capacity only.

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