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H. Rept. 117-300 1 (2022-04-25)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaeis0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION . 117TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-300 ALASKA SALMON RESEARCH TASK FORCE ACT APRIL 25, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany H.R. 6651] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 6651) to establish an Alaska Salmon Research Task Force, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with- out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 6651 is to establish an Alaska Salmon Re- search Task Force. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION Since 2018, fourteen fisheries disasters have occurred in Alaska.1 Nearly all these fisheries were salmon fisheries-highlighting a substantial decline in the abundance of salmon in the state. These developments have created a dire situation for Alaskans-including many Native communities, like those on the Yukon River, who rely on healthy salmon stocks to serve as food and income. The Yukon River's summer 2021 chum run was devastatingly low: only 153,000 fish were counted, compared to 1.7 million in years past.2 Additionally, Chinook salmon runs were recently also 'Press Release, NOAA, Secretary of Commerce Issues Multiple Fishery Disaster Determina- tions for Alaska (Jan. 21, 2022), www.noaa.gov/news-release/secretary-of-commerce-issues- multiple-fishery-disaster-determinations-for-alaska. 2Advisory Announcement, Div. of Commercial Fisheries, Alaska Dep't of Fish & Game, 2021 Yukon River Salmon Summer Fishery Announcement #16, Summer Update #7, Yukon Area Salmon Fishery, at 2 (July 20, 2021), www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/applications/dcfnewsrelease/ 1301954168.pdf. 29-006