Endangered salmon - Updates … - Brief Article

Something's fishy in Klamath, and it doesn't bode well for the area's endangered salmon. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Bush administration has suppressed a study asserting that returning water to Oregon's Klamath River would be economically more beneficial to the region than diverting it for agriculture. Increased revenues, it said, would come from sport and commercial fishing and recreational activities. Word of the report came shortly after a whistle-blower in the National Marine Fisheries Service reported that two scientific recommendations to maintain higher water flows had been overridden by nonscientists. Meanwhile, California state biologists issued a report in January 2003 concluding that the massive die-off of 33,000 salmon along the Klamath River in northern California was directly tied to the decision to pump extra water for the area's drought-stricken farmers....

COPYRIGHT 2003 Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group