This is the 59th year the Yurok Tribe has celebrated the Annual Klamath Salmon Festival to honor the iconic fish, which they have historically relied on for food. But this year’s forecast for Klamath River fall-run Chinook is one of the lowest on record. That led the tribe to make the decision this week not to serve fish at the festival in order to help preserve the population. … The Klamath’s salmon population has been declining for years for a variety of reasons, including dams blocking spawning habitat and water quality issues. A large-scale project is underway on the Trinity River, one of the Klamath’s tributaries, to provide habitat restoration.