(Washington, D.C.) -- Democratic members of Oregon's Congressional delegation are urging the Bonneville Power Administration to reconsider a decision to cut nearly two-and-a-half-million-dollars from a salmon hatchery program. Eighty percent of the salmon that return to the Columbia River for commercial and recreational fishing come from hatcheries. The BPA cut funding to the Safe Area Fisheries Enhancement program with less than four months' notice. Native salmon runs are negatively impacted by dams that provide electricity to the BPA.