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SB331 • 2025

Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.

Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Senator Smith DB
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.

Digest: This Act tells ODFW to treat some hatchery and natural fish stocks as a single population.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: This Act tells ODFW to treat some hatchery and natural fish stocks as a single population.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
  • Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.
  • Relating to: Relating to native fish.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 Senate

    Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.

  3. 2025-01-13 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: This Act tells ODFW to treat some hatchery and natural fish stocks as a single population. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.
Relating to: Relating to native fish.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 331
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: This Act tells ODFW to treat some hatchery and natural fish stocks as a single popu-
lation. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to manage hatchery produced and naturally
produced salmon and steelhead in a watershed as a single population.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to native fish.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 496.
SECTION 2. (1) As used in this section, “native fish” and “naturally produced” have the
meaning given those terms in ORS 496.430.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of the wildlife laws, and except as provided in
subsection (3) of this section, the State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall manage
indigenous stocks of salmon and steelhead in a watershed, whether naturally produced or
hatchery produced, as a single, integrated native fish population in accordance with ORS
496.012.
(3) The department may manage naturally produced and hatchery produced indigenous
salmon or steelhead in a watershed as separate populations only as strictly necessary to
satisfy the requirements of the federal Endangered Species Act.
(4) The department shall submit a report, in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, to the
committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources
before managing salmon or steelhead stocks pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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