NANFA-- FW: Hatcheries and the ESA

Dave Neely (rheopresbe_at_hotmail.com)
Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:40:51 -0500

This article was in the Washington Post on the 29th, and may be of interest
to many on the list. It certainly has implications for a lot of other
imperiled fishes in regions other than the Northwest...

Accessing the complete article via the link below may require registering
with WP.

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"Hatchery Salmon to Count as Wildlife -- SEATTLE, April 28 -- The Bush
administration has decided to count hatchery-bred fish, which are pumped
into West Coast rivers by the hundreds of millions yearly, when it decides
whether stream-bred wild salmon are entitled to protection under the
Endangered Species Act."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51480-2004Apr28.html

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Dave
St. Louis, MO
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