goodbye salmon its been good to know you

[ensho]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/13/MN5I19CVKD.DTL


Key salmon spawning rivers all but dry


The key spawning grounds for what was once the greatest run of salmon on the North Coast are close to being as dry as they have ever been, according to biologists and the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Recent measurements showed the water volume in both rivers approaching record lows for this time of year. The two tributaries of the Klamath River are historic breeding grounds for salmon and are considered critical to the recovery of the species.

"Large areas of the (Scott) River have gone completely dry, stranding endangered coho salmon as well as chinook and steelhead in shallow, disconnected pools of water," said Greg King, president of the nonprofit Siskiyou Land Conservancy, which has fought to protect the salmon runs in the Klamath River system.

"This could be the year that causes the coho to go extinct if they can't get upstream in the Scott and Shasta."

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[blm]

1. Kerry made this an issue before and during 2004 campaign - media sided with Cheney and treated Kerry

like he was making shit up.

Fockin' fascist media.

Klamath was also another reason why Christie Todd Whitman left as head of EPA.

http://www.welovejohnkerry.com/2007/06/28/kerry-v-cheney-or-something-is-fishy-in-the-states-of-california-and-oregon/

Note how the media via AP's manipulations treated Klamath before the election and after.

[Winterblues]

2. eliminate the dams and the salmon will return in huge numbers.

:shrug: But a lot of people never acknowledge the obvious.

[sentelle]

3. and yet

Here in the Seattle area, people are lining up along the Eliot Bay waterfront to hook salmon, not in boats even...

Not saying that overfishing isn't a problem, (it IS), but that sometimes newspapers are a little myopic (i.e. a problem in California is everyone's problem).....

Like I care about California, or that other place where its local news is declared national.... New York City.