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Scientific Advisory Board: DO MORE! ISSU Receives PSMFC Award ISSU Files Lawsuit Breaching Moves Into National News "Gag Order" To Fisheries Biologists Issues Discussed at January Meeting Federal Hatchery Program Idaho Sticks Its Head in the Sand Green Scams Salmon River Steelheader・s Derby Legislature Holds Salmon Science Hostage |
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The issue is becoming nationalized. Here are a few quotes from various sources: The Honorable Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior: "Dams are not like the pyramids of Egypt that stand for eternity. They are instruments that should be judged by the health of the rivers to which they belong." (July 14, 1998) U. S. Congress・House of Appropriations Committee: "The Committee has previously expressed its deep concerns regarding vast sums of taxpayer dollars pouring into this project with little apparent effect. For all its reliance on technological fixes and fish barging, there is no clear evidence that salmon recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest are, or will become successful." (Energy and Water Subcommittee Report FY 99, June 1998) The Boston Globe: "Unfortunately dams also kill the beloved salmon, a mainstay of Northwest Rivers for 6 million years. On the Snake, federal agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help fish bypass the dams・a single sockeye was once chauffeured 350 miles downriver in an Army Corps of Engineers truck・but the Snake・s salmon runs are still dwindling toward extinction." (News article, February 9, 1998) ABC World News Tonight: "The salmon are dying despite the nearly one billion tax dollars the federal government has spent trying to save them. ("It・s Your Money" segment, April 29, 1998) |
