States, tribes and three federal agencies will continue to work side by side for the good of endangered salmon and steelhead as they extended the Columbia Basin Fish Accords for up to four more years.  The original agreements, signed in 2008, provided states and tribes more than $900 million to implement projects benefiting salmon, steelhead, and other fish and wildlife, and $50 million for Pacific lamprey passage improvements at federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers.  The Accords partnerships over the past 10 years balanced the agencies’ needs to perform their missions of navigation, flood risk management, hydropower production, fish and wildlife mitigation, recreation, water supply and irrigation in a manner consistent with tribal trust and treaty rights.  The new Accords extensions could run through September 2022 and will set aside more than $400 million for fish and wildlife mitigation and protection.