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1. Spring Jack Count Going For New Record
2. Optimism Wanes As Judge Offers 'Guidance' Over BiOp Changes
3. Obama Officials Get Crash Course In New Salmon Plan
4. New Colville Tribal Hatchery On Track For Full Funding
5. WDFW Wants Public Comment On Hatchery Reform
1. Is Time Running Out For Spring Chinook?
2. Stimulus Spending Gives Hydro BiOp A Big Boost
3. Estuary MOA May Save Agency Jobs And Fish
4. NOAA Releases More Pesticide Rules
5. Oregon Anti-Gillnetting Bill Dies In Committee
1. Hatchery Operations Get Serious Scrutiny
2. BiOp Judge Wants Breaching Language Added To Salmon Plan
3. Analysis: Judge Alarmed Over Extinction Clock
4. Cold River, Slow Start To Chinook Season
5. Salmon Closure Hits Cal, More Opportunity In NW Waters
6. Water Supply Improves 10 Percent From February
1. Pretty Good BiOp, Says The Judge
2. Council Hears Hot Fish Predictions
3. Ocean Is Number One Suspect In Sacramento Fish Declines
4. Niners Nix Challenge To Feds' Hatchery Policy
5. Mark-Selective Chinook Fishery A Possibility Off Washington Coast
1. NWPCC Approves New, More Expensive F&W Program
2. Judge Sends Mixed Message Over New BiOp
3. BiOp Judge To BPA: Can You Tap Stimulus Money For Salmon?
4. Robust Forecasts For Columbia Coho, Fall Chinook
5. Colvilles Call For More Selective Fishing To Save Summer Run
6. Niners Deny Appeal: Sea Lion Trapping To Begin
7. West Coast Salmon Numbers Expected To Improve
8. Oregon Senate OKs Bill To Fund Klamath Dam Removals
9. Last-Minute Sparring Over Salmon Plan
1. Feds Say Big Sockeye Returns Had Little To Do With Spill
2. More Questions Than Answers Over Salmon/Whale PCB Study
3. States Reach Split Decision Over TDG Monitoring
4. Salmon Treaty's Endowment Fund Sinks With Stock Market
5. Big Gaps In New EPA Report On Columbia Basin Toxics
6. Lohn Resigns As Regional NOAA Fisheries Administrator
7. Judge Rules Against Stay To Halt Lethal Action Against Sea Lions
8. Tacoma, Skokomish And Agencies Settle Cushman Disputes
1. La Nina May Take Another Bow Before Next Summer
2. Salmon Go Acoustic At Research Confab
3. Mixed News Over New Bird, Barging Results
4. Feds Back Down From Their No-Spill Spring Barging Strategy
5. Battle Over Spring Chinook Harvest Goes On
6. Most New F&W Proposals Flunk First Science Review
7. Feds Say Black Rock Project Too Expensive
1. More Scrutiny For New Fish Projects Likely
2. Enviros, Oregon Call For Even More Spill, Flow In 2009 Dam Operations
3. Columbia River Sea Lions May Bite The Bullet
4. Salmon-Munching Bass Getting A Closer Look
5. Puget Sound Action Agenda Unveiled
6. NOAA Fisheries Releases First Pesticide BiOp
7. WDFW Director Koenings Resigns
1. Feds File Strong Defense In Latest BiOp Case
2. If Hydro BiOp Flops, So Does New Harvest Plan, Irrigators Say
3. Study Finds Similar Fish Survival In Fraser, Columbia Rivers
4. No More March Spill At Bonneville For Early Hatchery Release
5. Analysis: What Kind Of Bang For A Billion Salmon Bucks?
1. Columbia Basin Coho Run Comes On Strong
2. Science Panel's Spill/Transport Review Faces More Scrutiny
3. New Harvest Proposal Irks Netters
4. Niners Reverse District Court Ruling Over Harvest Lawsuit
5. BiOp Judge To Go On Tour
1. Science Panel At Odds With New BiOp Over Barging
2. Decision Near On Dissolved Gas Waiver
3. Juvenile Fish Survival Suffers Big Drop In Lower Columbia
4. Fall Chinook Run Upgrade Boosts Harvest Rates
5. Mid-C Steelhead Recovery Plan Ripe For Public Comment
6. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Sign MOA
7. Lone Ratepayer Challenges BPA Fish Accords
8. Feds Release Disaster Aid For Coastal Salmon Fishermen
1. Fall Chinook Count Climbing Fast
2. Judge Says No To BiOp Science Review
3. La Nina Lingers, But For How Long?
4. Power Council Finishes Draft 2008 F&W Program
5. Deal Reached Over Flows For Kootenai Sturgeon
1. Sockeye Slapdown: NMFS Pans FPC Spill Memo
2. Sides Line Up As New BiOp Heads For Court
3. Fall Chinook Season Opens On Columbia
4. 2007 Snake Fall Chinook Run Makes Big Gain
5. Settlement Reached Over Pesticide Review
6. DFO's Latest Ocean Report Good News For Salmon Numbers
1. Basin Sockeye Keep On Coming Home
2. Oregon Files BiOp Complaint
3. Council Gets Complicated Message On Toxics
4. ISRP OK's Latest Klickitat Fish Plan
5. ISAB Weighs In On Invasive Species
1. Enviros, Oregon Go After New Hydro BiOp
2. Science Panel Blesses Feds' Passage Model
3. Enviros Send Feds' BiOp Bill
4. BPA Calls For Changes In Fish Recovery Yardsticks
5. Ocean Stays Cool, But pH is Dropping
6. B.C. Fishers Expect Big Cuts From Treaty Changes
7. Summer Season Starts With Big Sockeye Bang
1. U.S., Canada Cut New Harvest Deal To Save More Chinook
2. Spring Chinook Run Downgraded By 30 Percent
3. BPA'S 2007 Fish Bill Adds Up To $716 Million
4. High Flows, Debris, Affect Fish Passage At Dams
1. New BiOp Based On Best Science And Better Collaboration, Say Feds
2. BPA Customers Raise Big Questions Over New F&W Agreements
3. Super-Hot Sport Fishery Shuts Down Early
4. Feds Declare West Coast Salmon Fisheries Official Failure
5. Mysterious Sea Lion Deaths Haunt Salmon Run
6. Niners Deny Idaho Appeal Of 2004 Hydro BiOp
1. BPA Buys Tribes' Support For New BiOp
2. PFMC Closes Most of West Coast To All Chinook Fishing
3. Sporties Catch Thousands Of Chinook Below Bonneville Dam
4. Federal Court Upholds Puget Sound's ESA Harvest Policy
5. Humane Society Tries To Kill Fed's Bonneville Sea Lion Decision
6. Alaska Cuts Chinook Quota Nearly 50 Percent
1. Some Sea Lions May Die Over ESA-Salmon Diet
2. NW Salmon Runs Dodge A Bullet
3. Puget Sound Stocks Still Doing OK
4. Science Panel Questions TRT's 'Gap' Analysis
5. Action Agencies Reverse Course On Hatchery Spill Decision
6. Feds Will Look At West Coast Smelt Populations
1. Proposed 2008 Hydro Operations May Short Spring Chinook Survival
2. BiOp Judge Nixes Call To Boost Bonneville Spill
3. Fight Brews Over Upcoming Spring Harvest
4. Spring Harvest Adjusted To Help Weak Willamette Run
5. Agencies Say No To Spring Creek Hatchery Spill
6. 92 Members Of Congress Say Feds' Columbia Salmon Plan Needs More Work
1. Cold Ocean Means More Salmon
2. BPA May Shell Out Tens Of Millions More For BiOp Support
3. Judge Grants May Extension For Completion Of Hydro BiOp
4. Northwest Fish Experts Debunk Controversial Sea Lice Study
5. Power Council Elects New Chair, Gets New Member
6. Feds Put Oregon Coho Back On ESA List
1. BiOp Plaintiffs Agree To Last Year's Hydro Operations
2. Future Harvest Regime May Nab More Listed Steelhead
3. BiOp Critics Ignore Science Board Findings
4. The Case Of The Vanishing Fall Chinook
5. Latest Water Supply Forecast: 95 Percent Of Average At The Dalles
6. NOAA Fisheries Wants Comment On Sea Lion Assessment
1. Feds Come Out Swinging In Support Of New BiOp
2. Enviro Groups Promise More Litigation Over Future Dam Operations
3. Harvest Managers Predict Huge Spring Chinook Run
4. Latest Research Strongly Supports Fish Barging Effort
5. Fish Passage Center Tries End Run Around Science Panel
6. Washington Pens New Water Agreement With Tribes
1. Scientists Tell FPC To Dump Upriver/Downriver Comparisons
2. Feds Want Fish Projects To Include Survival Targets
3. Columbia River Sea Lions And Birds May Soon Be On The Run
4. CBFWA Asks For Millions More To Meet Critical Needs
5. Science Panel Named To Help Puget Sound Rehab Effort
6. Whale Scientists Endorse Snake River Dam Removal
1. Feds Give Thumbs Up To Latest Salmon Plan
2. Power Council Prepares To Open F&W Amendment Process
3. Idaho Delegation Supports Craig Language In Water Bill
4. Idaho Gov. Names Jim Yost To NPCC
1. Draft Hydro BiOp Nearly Ready For Prime Time
2. Upper Columbia Recovery Plan Finally Finished
3. Judge Gives NMFS 60 Days To Finalize Oregon Coho Listing
4. New Study Says Hatchery Steelhead Fitness Shows Rapid Decline In Wild
5. Enviro Groups Target Report Language On Upper Snake BiOp
6. Snake Fall Chinook Run Holds Its Own
7. La Nina Heading Our Way
1. Agencies Release Assessment Of Future Dam Operations
2. Do Ocean Conditions Trump Dam Effects?
3. Feds Slam Latest Fish Passage Center Fish Study
4. Oregon Judge Dismisses FPC Staffers' Lawsuit
5. New Review Suggests Changes At Gorge Hatcheries
6. Upriver Columbia Fall Run Gets Severe Downgrade
7. Council Finds Coal Cutbacks Vital To Lower CO2 Emissions
1. House Hearing Fails To Link Klamath Fish Kill To VP Cheney
2. Hatchery Reform Group Says Harvest Changes Needed As Well
3. House Committee Mulls Sea Lion-Kill Bill
4. Property Rights Group To Appeal Two ESA/Hatchery Fish Rulings
5. No BiOp Appeal For Feds In Ninth Circuit
6. West Coast Sockeye Score: Bristol Bay 30 Million, Redfish Lake 3
1. Idaho Wants Niners To Re-Hear BiOp Case
2. Oregon Judge Says NMFS Dissed 'Best Available Science' In Coho Decision
3. Montana Takes Proposal On Reservoir Ops To The Mat
4. Feds Say 'No' To Montana Plan For Late-Summer Reservoir Releases
5. BPA Customer Groups Sound Off On Salmon Program
6. Scientists Say Ocean Is Full Of Fish
7. Nearly 350,000 Fall Chinook Expected Back To Columbia
1. Supreme Court Says ESA Is No Trump Card
2. BiOp Judge Calls For New Panel To Sort Out Salmon Science
3. Oregon Water Bill Dries Up In State Senate
4. Oregon Water Quality Commission OKs 2-Year TDG Waiver At Mainstem Dams
5. Summer Season Opens: Fewer Columbia Chinook, Sockeye Expected
1. 2006 Juvenile Fish Survival Best In Years
2. Lower Granite Jack Count 400 Percent Of 10-Year Average
3. States Split Over New Salmon Plan
4. Feds Fight Off Puget Sound Harvest Lawsuit
5. Earthjustice's Biop Bill Nearly $1 Million
6. Sea Lions Digest 4 Percent Of Upriver Run
7. Little Goose Spill Changed After Test Blocks Adult Migration
8. Federal Judge Rules NMFS Hatchery Policy Illegal
9. Appointments Made To Fish Passage Center Oversight Board
1. Federal Agencies Release Newest Salmon Plan
2. Chinook Jack Counts Going Through The Roof
3. Puget Sound Steelhead Added To ESA List
4. ISAB Says Fish Plans Need To Deal With Climate Change
5. River Managers Reject Call To Maximize Spring Chinook Barging
6. Judge Chides BPA And Corps Over April Dam Incident
7. Grover Named To Head Power Council's F&W Division
1. Puget Sound Cleanup May Cost Billions More Than Expected
2. Mixed Review For Lower Columbia Netpen Project
3. New Look For FPC Oversight Board OK'd By Power Council
4. Chinook Run Picks Up Speed In Columbia
5. Elwha Dam Removal Timeline Slides Three Years
6. State Study Clears Way For Further Condit Removal Permitting
1. Oregon Meets With Critics Over Drawdown Issue
2. Quit Trying To Measure Latent Mortality, Says Science Panel
3. Niners Soundly Reject 2004 BiOp Appeal
4. Climate Change May Stymie Salmon Recovery Plans
5. Management Council Picks Ocean Harvest Option
1. Spring Chinook Show Up In Lower Columbia
2. North Coast Harvest Options Shrink For Chinook, Better For South
3. US Wants Canadians To Develop Mark-Selective Chinook Fishery
4. Customs Court Dismisses ESA Salmon Case
5. McDermott Introduces Latest Version Of Breaching Studies Bill
6. Feds Tell BiOp Judge 'Proposed Action' Ready For Review By April
7. Power Council Re-Constitutes FPC Oversight Board
8. NPCC's Marker Leaves For "New Opportunities"
1. BPA Working On "Secret" Drawdown Deal With Oregon
2. Economists Flunk Enviro Report On Economics Of Dam Breaching
3. Spring Creek Spill Nixed For Hatchery Release
4. NOAA Fisheries Calls For Less Harvest On Listed Lower Columbia Chinook
5. Aussies Say El Nino Is Officially Over
6. Power Council Miffed At BPA's Final F&W Budget Decisions
7. Enviros Petition To Raise TDG Standards In Washington For More Spill
1. Important Fall Chinook Study In Limbo
2. Columbia Fall Chinook Runs Expected To Be Down, But Coho Up
3. Spill Boosters Take On Status Quo
4. Lower Columbia Tribes List Gripes Over BiOp Remand
5. Value Of 2006 West Coast Salmon Season Down 62 Percent
6. Washington Releases EIS On New Columbia Water Management Plan
1. BPA, Corps Make Deal With Tribes Over 2007 Dam Operations
2. Niners Say BPA Must Continue Fish Passage Center Funding
3. Corps Says No Flex In 2007 Libby Dam Operations
4. Feds Approve Puget Sound Recovery Plan, But Much Uncertainty Remains
5. Seattle Mixes Salmon With New Art Park
6. Power Council Wades Into BC Coal Mine Controversy
7. Zebra Mussels Found In California's Lake Mead
8. Idaho Governor Appoints New NPCC Member
1. Snake Fall Chinook Studies Get More Complicated
2. BPA Says Latest Comparative Survival Study Incomplete
3. States, Politicians Gang Up On Sea Lions
4. Forecasters Say 2007 Spring Run Should Be Down, But Redfish Sockeye Up
5. Feds Building New Fish Forecasting Tool
6. El Nino Still Growing
7. Study On Economics Of Dam Breaching Takes Another Hit
8. Hydro BiOp Remand Extended At Least Through Next July
9. Grant PUD Sets Vernita Bar Flows For Fall Chinook
10. Corps To Be Sued Over Libby Dam Operations
1. Corps Admits Big Foul Up In Montana Dam Operations
2. A Revolution In Fish Tracking Gets Under Way
3. CSS Study Gets One More Year Of Funding
4. Enviros Say Region Would Save Billions Without Lower Snake Dams
5. Scientist Says Dams May Not Be Limiting Fish Recovery
6. NOAA Says Oceans Are Cooling Temporarily
7. Idaho Senator May Try End Run Around BiOp Judge
1. Council Boosts Funding For Controversial Fish Survival Study, Questions Others
2. Success Of Updated Hatchery Programs Still Unproven
3. Snake Fall Chinook Return Beats 10-Year Average
4. BiOp Plaintiffs Charge Feds With Changing Directions In Remand
5. Washington Says To Limit Consumption Of Puget Sound Chinook
1. BiOp Judge Tells Feds To Add More Water To Salmon Recovery Recipe
2. BiOp Updates Show Evidence Of Little Progress
3. Upper Columbia Recovery Plan Released For Comment
4. Groups File Suit To Reduce Harvest Of ESA Chinook In Puget Sound
5. Early Forecast Calls For Below-Average Water Year
6. Columbia Fish Numbers Still Strong, Others Miss Forecasts Big Time
7. Washington Calls For Comment On Water Management Plan
1. Power Council Makes Draft Recommendations For 2007-09 F&W Budget
2. Budget Battle Nearly Doomed Netpen Fishery Project In Lower River
3. Seattle Judge Dismisses Challenge To Current Harvest Practices
4. Fall Chinook Run Late And Less Than Expected
5. El Nino Likely Heading Our Way
1. New Report Supports Earlier Analysis Of Canadian Harvest Changes
2. Feds Stick To Upper Snake Agreement In Remand
3. More Briefs, Barbs Exchanged Over Fish Passage Center
4. Yakamas Sign Fish Protection Settlement With Grant County PUD
5. Feds Release Proposed Recovery Plan For Hood Canal Chum
6. WDFW Calls For Comment On Steelhead Report
7. Niners Tell Corps To Keep On Dredgin'
1. West Coast Salmon Recovery Fund Fully Restored . . . For Now
2. Feds Tell BiOp Judge Breaching Not In The Cards
3. Compromise Operation Developed For Montana Reservoirs
4. PacifiCorp Says Klamath Dam Removal May Be OK With Them
5. Nearly Half Million Fall Chinook Expected In The Columbia River
1. Summer Chinook Run May Set Record
2. Lake Washington Sockeye Run Passes 200,000-Fish Mark
3. Good Hydro Survival For Juvenile Salmon
4. Montana Flow Proposal Gets Shot Down Again
5. Feds File Third Progress Report On Remand
6. Judge Turns Down Request For One Big BiOp
1. Science Panel Questions Big-Ticket Items In BPA's Next F&W Budget
2. Ocean Conditions Improve For This Year's Outmigration, So Far
3. New Cracks Show In Collaborative BiOp Effort
4. Summer Chinook Season Begins Right On Schedule
5. Enviros Want Judge To Reconsider Upper Snake BiOp Decision
6. 103 House Members Ask Feds To Look At Dam Breaching
7. Pit-Tag Results Puncture Conventional Wisdom Of Dam Effects On Returning Salmon
1. Late Spring Chinook Run Beats Pre-Season Estimate By Nearly 40 Percent
2. Yawning Survival Gaps Face BiOp Writers
3. Niners Hear BiOp Appeal From All Sides
4. Redden Combines 'Faulty' Snake-Columbia BiOp Consultations
5. Power Council OK's New Supplementation Effort For Grande Ronde, But Questions Remain
6. Northwest Dams Compare Favorable To Others, BPA Study Says
7. Botulism Kills Millions Of Fall Chinook At Ringold Hatchery
1. Chinook Run Stymies Managers, Finally Builds Momentum
2. Judge Mulls While Enviros And Water Users Trade Shots
3. Feds Say FPC Lawsuit In Wrong Court With Wrong Targets
4. Hydro Remand Gets 3-Month-Plus Extension
5. Enviros Want Oregon's Coastal Coho Stocks Back On The ESA List
6. PacifiCorp Calls For Trap And Haul At Klamath River Dams
7. Power Council Pans Corps' Proposal For $30 Million Flood Control Review
8. Surplus Sales Lift BPA Revenues
9. Mainstem F&W Proposals Undergo First Review
1. Feds Downplay Fundamental Disagreements In Remand Report
2. Feds Come Out Swinging Against BiOp Judge In Appeal Brief
3. Spring Chinook Run Even Later Than Last Year
4. South Coast Gets Some Chinook Fishing This Year, Cuts In North And Puget Sound
5. Feds Recommend Fish Ladders At Pacificorp's Klamath Project
6. Lawsuit Challenges NMFS' New Hatchery/Wild ESA Fish Policy
7. Fish Passage Center Gets Contract Extension Through November
8. Nez Perce Side With Feds In Lawsuit Over Upper Snake Water
1. Council Gets Update On Sea Lions, Hatchery Review
2. Fish Passage Center Gets Last-Minute Reprieve
3. Science Panel Slams FPC's Latest Survival Study
4. BiOp Judge Denies Immediate Remand Extension
5. West Coast Harvest Managers Offer Lukewarm To Grim Fishing Prospects
6. Council OK's Funding For Ocean Tracking Study
7. Puget Sound Steelhead Proposed For 'Threatened' ESA Status
1. BiOp Plaintiffs Call For Five-Month Extension Of Remand Process
2. Salmon Managers Fight Corps Over Spill For March Hatchery Release
3. Spending For West Coast Chinook Tops ESA Expenditures By Federal Agencies
4. Judge Redden Dismisses Irrigators' Cross-Claims In Upper Snake BiOp Case
5. Enviros Say Canadian Sockeye Runs In Big Trouble
6. Harvest Managers Weigh West Coast Fishing Options
7. Washington OK's Bonds For Water Studies
1. More Salmon Scrutiny Planned By Northwest Congressmen
2. Washington Politicians Hammer Out Agreement On Columbia Water
3. Region Creates One Of World's Biggest Bird Feeders
4. Waldo Hired To Ride Herd On Hatchery, Harvest Review
1. Feds Call For Less Harvest Of ESA Fish--Everywhere
2. BPA Picks Short-Term Replacements For Fish Passage Center
3. Oregon Coastal Coho Don't Make ESA List
4. Too Early To Evaluate '05 Summer Spill, Says Science Panel
5. Karier To Chair Northwest Power And Conservation Council
6. Columbia Harvest Managers Hope Spring Season Lasts Past April
7. Will Northwest Salmon Be Around In 100 Years?
8. Corps Calls For Public Comment On Flood Control Report
9. "It's Still The Ocean, Stupid"--10 Years Of NW Fishletter
1. BiOp Judge Orders More Spring Spill, Less Steelhead For Idaho
2. Feds Call For Public Comment On Puget Sound Recovery Plan
3. Sportfishers, Gillnetters Clash Over Share Of Spring Chinook Run
4. West Coast Steelhead Status Re-Determined
1. Judge OKs Summer Spill, Balks At More Flows
2. Feds Announce Appeal Of 2004 Hydro BiOp
3. New Lawsuits Over Feds' ESA Listing Policy
4. 2006 Fish Forecasts Reflect Changes In Ocean Conditions
5. Grant PUD Finishes Settlement Talks Over Fish Issues
1. Feds Say Proposed Dam Operations Would Kill More Fish, Cost $450 Million A Year
2. BiOp Plaintiffs Ready To Square Off In Court
3. Talks Begin On How To Break Up Fish Passage Center
4. Federal Scientists Slam FPC Survival Study
5. Council Hears Comment On How To Replace Controversial Fish Passage Center
1. Lawsuits Target Canadian Interception Of US Chinook
2. Mass Marking Threatens Integrity Of Salmon Harvest Analyses, Experts Say
3. BiOp Plaintiffs Ask For Changes To Winter, Spring Dam Operations
4. Enviros' Spill And Flow Strategy Could Add Hundreds Of Millions In Power Costs
5. Upriver Tribes Want In On BiOp Remand Talks
6. Wash. Extends Agreement To Study 'Modest' Drawdown At Grand Coulee
7. Early Forecast Tool Calls For Near-Average Water Year
8. Grant PUD's New Turbine Passes Fish Test
9. BPA Says FPC Study Short-Changes Benefits Of Fish Barging
1. Politicians Get Earful On Salmon Harvest, Canadian Interceptions
2. Salmon War Surfaces At Boise Fish Conference
3. 'Speeching' Won't Avoid Breaching The Dams, BiOp Judge Warns
4. Tribes Write Senators To Save Fish Passage Center
5. Latest Survival Study From Fish Passage Center Ignores NMFS' Concerns
1. Biop Judge Gives Feds One Year To Produce New Hydro BiOp
2. BiOp Parties Have Different Ideas Over Future Remand
3. As Chinook Run Winds Down, Politics Heat Up; Salmon Hearings Scheduled
4. Critical Habitat Designated For Bull Trout
5. Lower Snake Dredging Lawsuit Finally Dismissed
1. So Much Spill, So Few Fish
2. Lawsuit Planned Over Canadian Harvest Of ESA-Listed Stocks
3. New BiOp Talks Shaping Up To Satisfy Judge
4. Montana, Kootenai Join Biop Fray
5. Business Coalition Weighs In On Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Effort
6. Terry Flores Named Director Of Northwest River Partners
7. Big Fish Days At Bonneville Dam
1. BiOp Settlement Talks Take Several Tacks
2. Critical Habitat Designated For West Coast Salmon
3. Feds May Face Lawsuit Over B.C. Sport-Caught Salmon
4. BPA Explains July Power Shortage
5. BC Fishers Keep Fingers Crossed Over Fraser Summer Sockeye Run
6. Suzumoto Named To Run NMFS Hydro Branch
7. USFWS Announces Three-Year Review Of Columbia Basin Hatcheries
1. Niners Uphold Spill Injunction
2. Niners' Panel Hears Spill Appeal In Seattle
3. Court-Ordered Spill Constrains Emergency Protocols
4. Northwest Lawmakers Rally Behind Fish Passage Center
5. Some Northwest Salmon Runs Fizzle, Others OK
6. Council Gets Schooled In Current Harvest Policies
7. Flow Proposal Gets Nixed For Second Time
1. Spill Now, Argue Later, Says Ninth Circuit Court
2. Summer Chinook Corralled By Spill Problems At Lower Snake Dam
3. Commercial Harvest OK'd For Upper Columbia Summer Chinook
4. Billion-Dollar Salmon Recovery Plan For Puget Sound
5. Energy Bill Language Cuts Funding For Fish Passage Center
6. Idaho Comes Up With BiOp Water After All
7. Niners Uphold Ruling On Pesticides Near Salmon Streams
1. Judge Calls For $67 Million More In Summer Spill
2. Feds Appeal Spill Decision to Ninth Circuit
3. American Fisheries Society Review Flunks Latest Hydro Biop
4. Snohomish Fish Plan Moves Forward, But Harvest Issues Remain
5. Brian Lipscomb Named New CBFWA Director
6. Spring Chinook Run Hits 100,000, Shad Count Nears 3 Million
7. NMFS Announces New ESA Hatchery Policy, Stock Status
1. Judge Finds Hydro BiOp Legally Flawed
2. Enviros Go All Out To Sell Judge On Expanded Summer Operations
3. Who Ate All The Fish? Just About Everybody It Seems
4. Mid-C Utilities Question USFWS Study On Hanford Fish Stranding
[1] BiOp Foes Square Off In Court; Decision Expected Soon
[2] Feds Say Proposed Summer Hydro Operations Will Kill More Fish
[3] BPA Outlines Limits To Its Future Fish Obligations
[4] Chinook Run on the Columbia Goes Up And Down; Harvest Managers Keep Most Fisheries Closed
[5] More Consumer Confusion Over Farmed, Wild Fish Safety
[6] House Told ESA Burdens Co-op Power Suppliers
[1] Spring Chinook Run Either Real Late, A Lot Less Than Expected, Or Both
[2] Power Council Gets Mixed Messages On 2005 River Operations
[3] Wash. Knocks Both Sides In Biop Beef; Oregon Waffles On Injunction
[4] BiOp Judge Confused, Says Irrigators' Attorney
[5] Feds Say Oregon's Fish Recovery Efforts Lagging; ESA Funds Jeopardized
[6] More PCBs In Puget Sound Salmon
[1] Harvest Changes Coming To Summer Chinook Fishery In Columbia
[2] Irrigators Argue Fish Better Off With Barging And Dams In Place
[3] Enviros Ask Judge For More Summer Flows And Spill For Fall Chinook
[4] The Case Of The Mysterious, Reappearing Fall Chinook
[5] What's Next For Subbasin Plans?
[6] Lower Columbia Harvest Project Gets Mixed Review
[7] Tacoma Not Liable For Cushman Damages: Tribal Claims Moved
[8] Scientists Debate Hatchery/Wild Issues in Seattle
[1] BPA Customer Groups Sound Off Over Future Fish Costs
[2] Old NMFS Tool Used To Fault Feds' 'Over-Optimistic' Take On Fish Runs
[3] Irrigators Add New Blood To BiOp Litigation
[4] Columbia River Initiative Goes On Hold
[5] Dry Winter Could Limit BPA Revenues, Stream Flows, Not Power
[6] Cost Estimate Doubles For Proposed Yakima Basin Reservoir
[1] Columbia River Fish Trends Looking Good To Great
[2] Feds Say New Hydro BiOp Fixes Old One
[3] Sporties, Commercials Battle Over Possible Boost In Steelhead Bycatch
[4] Upriver Fall Chinook Forecast Expected To Be 4th Largest Since 1964
[5] Makah Winter Chinook Fishery Makes Waves
[1] Salmon Recovery Effort Stymied By Too Much Harvest, Too Little Logic
[2] Oregon's Deja Vu Drawdown Scenario Stuns Salmon Wonks
[3] Preliminary Estimate Of Subbasin Improvements At $3 Billion And Still Counting
[4] Upper Columbia Recovery Fish Recovery Plan Partially Revealed
[5] Oregon's Eden To Chair Northwest Power And Conservation Council
[6] PacifiCorp Postpones Condit Removal To Pay Higher Permitting Costs
[7] BPA Customer Groups Move To Intervene In BiOp Lawsuit
[1] Council 'Got It Right' On Montana Flows, Says Science Panel
[2] Environmental, Fishing Groups File Amended Complaint Over New BiOp
[3] Fish Recovery Plan Calls For 75-Year Effort To Reach Sustainable Goals
[4] Strong Forecast For 2005's Spring Chinook Run In Columbia River
[5] Montana's New Governor Appoints Two To Power Council
[6] Puget Baker Settlement Terms Would Cost $360 Million
[7] Puget Sound Businesses Get Salmon Recovery News
[1] Revised Hydro BiOp Released; More Litigation Expected
[2] American Fisheries Society Approves Tribes' Call For BiOp Review
[3] Citing New Info, Feds Propose Huge Cuts In Critical Fish Habitat
[4] New Lawsuit To Target Proposed ESA Hatchery, Relisting Policy
[5] Joan Dukes Named Power Council Member From Oregon
[6] Grant PUD Sets Winter Flows For Vernita Bar Spawners
[7] Settlement Reached In Lewis River Hydro-Licensing
[1] Science Panel Finds Big Holes In Summer Flow Analyses
[2] Fish Researchers Still Looking For Answers To Flow-Survival Conundrum
[3] Columbia River Initiative Handed Off To New Governor
[4] Judge Nixes Corps' Lower Snake Dredging Proposal
[5] Power Council To Fund Review Of Region's Fish Data Management
[6] Douglas PUD, Colville Tribes Reach Deal on Wells Land Charges
[1] Higher Canadian Catches May Hurt Puget Sound Recovery Efforts
[2] Council Promises More Scrutiny Of Fish Passage Center
[3] Regional Flow Symposium Set For Nov. 9-10 In Portland
[4] Draft Salmon Plan Takes Licks Before Election
[5] Greg Delwiche Named BPA's VF For Environment, Fish And Wildlife
[6] Feds Call For Public Comment On Future Of Mitchell Act Hatcheries
[7] Half Of Sub-Basin Plans Released For Comment
[1] Concerns Aired Over Draft BiOp; New Round Of Litigation Promised
[2] Fall Chinook Study Challenges Old Assumptions
[3] Ninth Circuit Upholds Corps' Operations On Lower Snake
[4] Biologists Take Aim At Feds' Proposed Hatchery Policy
[5] Tribal Fishery May Not Reach Fall Chinook Goals
[1] Draft BiOp Goes Public, Gaps and All
[2] Fall Chinook Mysteries Haunt New BiOp
[3] Upriver Run Gets Late Boost; Snake Fish May Set Record
[4] Council News: Progress on Subbasins, Flow Symposium Planned
[1] New BiOp Delayed To Re-Vamp Fall Chinook Fish Analysis
[2] Niners Reject Spill Appeal, Feds Ask For Dismissal
[3] Fall Chinook Run Begins To Soar
[4] Appeal Likely For Hatchery Lawsuit Snuffed By D.C. Judge
[5] Weak El Nino May Be On The Way
[1] Feds Appeal Over Summer Spill, Say Judge's Assumptions 'Inaccurate'
[2] BiOp Judge Kills Spill Plan, Says Added Water For Fish Not New
[3] Power Council May Expand Fish Passage Center Budget Review
[4] Bonneville Spillway Flows Lowballed For Last 30 Years
[5] FERC OK's New Turbines For Grant PUD
[6] Tern Management Plan Released For Public Comment
[1] Oregon Joins Spill Suit, Decision Due By Month's End
[2] Washington Endorses Spill Proposal
[3] Spill Proposal Trimmed To Reflect New Analysis
[4] Feds Nix Montana Flow Changes
[5] Columbia River Summer Chinook, Sockeye Run Near 40-Year High
[6] Power Council Wades Into Swamp Of Conflicting Hatchery Mandates
[7] Ambitious Salmon Restoration Planned Behind Deschutes Dams
[8] Tacoma Says 240 Cfs Order Is 'Punishment' By FERC
[1] Spill Proposal Could Cut Rates 2 Percent, Save Up To $31 Million
[2] Politics Played Big Role In Adding Summer Spill To 1995 BiOp
[3] BiOp Judge Worries About Approaching 'Train Wreck'
[4] Summer Chinook Harvest Begins; Another Big Fall Run Expected
[5] Wet And Wild May Adds Little To Streamflow Forecast
[6] Fish Managers Say No To Montana Flow Change
[1] Spring Run Fizzles: Mysteries Of The Deep Deepen
[2] Reduced Spill Proposal Expected By Week's End
[3] Feds Keep All ESA Stocks Listed, But Upbeat About Future
[4] Hatchery Hysteria Dies Down Fast After Media Flap
[5] Judge Redden Gives Feds Till Nov. 30 To Complete New Hydro BiOp
[6] Nez Perce Tribe Settles Claim To Snake River Water
[7] Yikes Stripes! Live Zebra Mussels Show Up At Washington Border
[1] Proposed Hatchery Policy Leaked, But Is It Really News?
[2] Feds To Announce De-Listing Decisions For Eight Fish ESU’s Soon
[3] Puget Sound Hatchery Reform Points To Coming Changes In Columbia Basin
[4] Chinook Run Slows: Size Estimate Drops Nearly 50 Percent
[5] Bill Maslen Named To Head BPA's F&W Division
[6] Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Methow Water Case
[7] Ninth Circuit Court Upholds Pesticide Ruling
[8] New Fight Over Dworshak Reservoir Water
[9] BPA's Rate Impact Of Declining Runoff Uncertain
[1] Spring Spill Curtailed; Summer Spill Proposal Needs More Work
[2] Enviros Promise Motion To Head Off Potential Cuts In Summer Spill
[3] Umatilla Tribes Intend To Sue Over Summer Spill
[4] Summer Spill Plays Role In Setting Ocean Harvest Quotas For 2004 Fisheries
[5] Less Snow, More Climate Scientists Likely In NW's Future
[6] New Agreement Reached For Fish Protection In Hanford Reach
[1] Feds' New Analysis May Turn Hydro BiOp On Its Head
[2] Agencies Finally Announce Summer Spill Proposal
[3] Feds Ask For More Time To Review Fish De-Listings
[4] Panel Bucks New Direction In Proposed Hatchery Policy
[5] National Research Council Weighs In On New Water Withdrawals
[6] Therese Lamb And Terry Larson To Leave BPA’S Fish Policy Arena
[1] Feds To Announce Their Summer Spill Option By Mar. 26
[2] Oregon Offers Little Support For BPA's Summer Spill Proposal
[3] DeFazio, Nine Other NW House Members Endorse Spill Study
[4] Latest News From BiOp Battle Fronts; Idaho, Irrigators Join Fray
[5] Spring Run Starts Slow At Bonneville Dam, But Hopes Are High
[6] Buoyed By Niners' Ruling, Farmers, Builders Contest Steelhead Listings
[7] Full Ninth Circuit Panel To Hear $5.7 Billion Cushman Claim
[8] PacifiCorp Files Klamath River Hydro Project Relicense
[1] New Coalition Of BPA Customers Fights For Cut In Summer Spill
[2] BPA Will Spill For Hatchery Release Next Week
[3] Ninth Circuit Dismisses Appeal Of Hogan Decision
[4] Fish Seasons Set For Big Spring Run
[5] Co-Managers To Get Role In Drafting New BiOp 'Tech Memos'
[6] Irrigators In Limbo Over BiOp Suit; Call For Judge To Step Down
[1] Feds Spell Out Proposals For Summer Spill Operations
[2] BPA Gets Little Support From Salmon Managers For Reduced Spill Proposals
[3] BiOp Judge Wants Feds To Pay More Attention To State, Tribal Input
[4] Removable Spillway Weir At Ice Harbor A Top Priority For 2004
[5] Attorneys Promise More Lawsuits Over Northwest Salmon Issues
[6] Danielson Elected To Chair Power Council For Second Term
[7] PGE Announces Agreement To Improve Fish Passage At Sullivan Project
[1] NOAA Says Snake River Spring Chinook Return Rates As Good As They Get
[2] Fish Managers Predict Monster Spring Chinook Run For 2004
[3] Debate Sharpens After Economists Take Cost-Effective Look At Spill
[4] Hydro BiOp Rewrite Near, Just How Much Still Unclear
[5] Another Year Of High Redd Counts For Snake River Fall Chinook
[6] Controversial Study Says Farmed Salmon May Pose Health Threat; Some Wild Fish Risky, Too
[1] NOAA's Lohn Updates Power Council On Upcoming Spill Evaluation, Hints At BiOp Changes
[2] BPA Customers Call For Major BiOp Re-Write, End To Summer Spill
[3] Skeptical Scientists Say Extinction Estimates A Risky Business
[4] Judge Redden Denies Motion To Expand Hydro Biop's Action Area
[5] Zero-Flow Scenario Debated For Lower Snake River Dams
[1] Farmed And Dangerous? Wild Salmon Advocates On Defensive
[2] Corps Again Nixes Lower Snake Dredging: Barges May Hit Bottom
[3] Idaho Water Talks Fizzle, But Crapo Doesn't Give Up
[4] Another Potential Lawsuit Over Idaho Water: Users Intend To Sue Feds
[5] Feds Cry Foul Over Attempt To Add Upper Snake Issue To BiOp Case
[6] Economists Add Up Costs, Benefits From More Columbia Irrigation
[7] Idaho Redd Counts Stay High For Spring Chinook
[8] Comment: Cyrus Noe On The Salmon Crossroads Conference
[1] Fish Policy Prognosticators Predict Recovery Will Stay A Big Business
[2] Only Three Sockeye Return To Idaho's Sawtooth Valley
[3] Idaho's Wild Steelhead Show From 2001's Drought-Plagued Migration
[4] NOAA Weather Computer Says More, Less, Or Average Winter Due
[5] NOAA Fisheries Must Re-Do "Essential Fish Habitat" Designation
[6] Pollution Control Board Scuttles Water Rights Settlement
[7] Power Council's Cassidy Named Chair Of Pacific Salmon Commission
[8] National Research Council Weighs In On Klamath Basin Dams
[1] West Coast Chinook, Coho Catch Tops One Million Fish Again
[2] Robust Spill Evaluation Faces Tough Hurdles
[3] Conservationists Put Idaho Water Talks On Hold
[4] New Hatchery, Harvest Agreement Announced For Upper-C Steelhead
[5] Letter From Congress Urges Consideration Of More Drastic Fish Recovery Options
[1] Judge Gets Good News Update In Biop Lawsuit
[2] 46,000 Fish In One Day: Fall Chinook Run On Way To New Record
[3] Lower Granite Fall Chinook Numbers Headed For New High
[4] Recent Ocean Surveys Support Regime Shift In Eastern Pacific
[5] Hatchery Fish May Not Be Good Stand-Ins For Wild Fish
[6] Study Says Methow Irrigation Canals Recharge River Flows
[7] Crapo Calls For Mediation In Idaho Water Dispute
[8] Grant PUD Meets Fish Survival Goals
[1] Feds Keep On Spilling, Spending Millions For Few Fish Benefits
[2] BPA Wins Lawsuit In Ninth Circuit Over 2001 Hydro Operations
[3] Fall Chinook Run Hits Big At Bonneville Dam
[4] Washington Proposes Fishery On Lower Snake Hatchery Chinook
[5] Niners Affirm Lower Court Ruling In Methow Water Suit
[6] Review Of Columbia Basin Hatcheries Nearly Completed
[7] Feds OK Mid-Columbia PUDs' Conservation Plan
[8] Environmental Groups May Sue Feds For More Upper Snake Water
[9] Hydro Managers Flunk Again, Says American Rivers [10] BPA Names Terry Larson To Head Fish And Wildlife Division
[1] To Spill Or Not; That's Still The Question
[2] Feds Knocked After Nixing Proposal To Cut Flow And Spill
[3] Montana's Call For Changes Climbs Shaky Policy Ladder
[4] Questions Raised Over Salmon/PCB Study
[5] New Assessment Of ESA Stocks Shows Reduced Risk Of Extinction
[6] Baker Lake Sockeye Return Breaks Old Record
[7] Correction
[2] Montana Wants Fish Managers To Assess Benefits Of Hydro Operations
[3] Summer Chinook Numbers Get Big Boost
[4] BiOp Judge Calls For Meeting To Outline Expectations Over Remand
[5] Irrigators File Notice To Sue Feds Over Hydro Biop's 'Flaws'
[6] La Nina Likelihood Down From 70 Percent To Nearly Nada
[7] Yakama Nation Adds BPA To Suit Over Fish Funding
[8] New Paper Suggests Hatchery Fish Can Crowd Out Wild Stock
[9] Seattle Judge Calls For Interim Stream Buffers In Pesticide Use
[1] Redden Rules To Keep BiOp In Place During Year-Long Remand
[2] Feds Say Dams May No Longer Be Jeopardizing Fish Runs
[3] Senator Crapo Wants More Bucks For The BiOp
[4] Power Planning Council Unhappy With BPA Head's Senate Testimony
[5] La Nina Most Likely On The Way, NOAA Forecasters Say
[6] Summer Spill Study Begins At Ice Harbor Dam
[7] Summer Spill Analysis: Little Bang For Lots Of Bucks
[8] Bush Administration Wants Oregon Coho Off ESA List
[9] BPA Rate Increase Proposal Comes In At Net 5 Percent [10] Kempthorne Says No White House Calls Over EPA Job
[1] Council's Science Board See-Saws On Supplementation
[2] Council Recommends $34 Million In Mainstem Spending
[3] Hydro Conference Focuses On Saving Dollars And Salmon
[4] Governors Unite Against New Dam Breaching Rhetoric
[5] Environmental Groups Make Case For BiOp's Immediate Demise
[6] Spring Run Beats Prediction; Jacks Signal Even Stronger Run Next Year
[7] Changes In Forest Service Policy May Speed Up Hydro Relicensing
[1] Oregon Judge Dumps BiOp Over "Uncertainties"
[2] Judge Calls For More Briefs In BiOp Decision; 1-Year Remand Likely
[3] American Rivers Goes After FERC Over Hells Canyon Dams
[4] Second Phase Of Puget Sound Hatchery Review Completed
[5] Enviros Say They Will Sue State Over Hatchery Effluent
[6] Washington State Doles Out $22 Million More In Salmon Recovery Dollars
[7] Fish Managers Call For Less Power Peaking At Upper Columbia Dams
[8] Patt Named New CRITFC Director
[1] Oregon Judge May Toss Out Hydro Biological Opinion
[2] Battle Over Hydro BiOp Goes Public; Ruckus Over RPA
[3] Hanford Fish Stranding; Much Ado About Very Few?
[4] Jury Still Out On What's Killing Seattle's Salmon
[1] Power Planning Council Signs Off On Marathon Mainstem Amendment Process
[2] Oregon Council Member Questions Value Of Summer Spill
[3] Snake Spill Starts After Debate Over Water Supply, Science
[4] Late Snow Bumps Up Latest Water Forecasts
[5] Study Points To Importance Of Nutrients For Snake Salmon
[6] 9th Circuit Rejects Petition Over Baker Dam Operations
[7] Scientists Outline Difficulties In Determining Restoration trategies
[8] Early Show For Columbia Springers; Willamette, A Different Story
[9] Two Extinct Coho Populations Reappear In Lower Columbia [10] Repairs Blocked Winter Fish Passage At John Day Dam
[1] Hatchery Versus Wild Fish: Latest Round Leads To Petition
[2] New Regulation Calls For Marking All Federal Hatchery Fish
[3] Lower Columbia Gillnetters Get One More Day Of Fishing
[4] Power Council Adjourns Early To Rewrite Mainstem Amendments
[5] Latest Water Supply Forecast Up Slightly
[6] Groups Sue Over Puget Sound Hatchery Operations
[1] No Surprises From Feds In ESA Fish Status Updates
[2] This Year's Spring Chinook Run Starts With Big Mystery
[3] Spill At Bonneville Dam Ok'd To Aid Hatchery Release
[4] NOAA Fisheries Announces New Division To Focus On Recovery
[5] Stream Restoration Measure To Get Seattle Vote
[6] Methow Basin Redd Counts In: Another Fantastic Year
[7] Annual Flap Over Fish Report Card Makes More Headlines
[1] Scientists Take Issue With Old Flow Augmentation Paradigm
[2] Steadier Flows May Be Key To Improving Fish Survival
[3] Locke Talks Money With Puget Sound Salmon Troopers
[4] Colvilles Submit $950 Million Claim Over Wells Dam
[5] Tribes Complain About BPA Budget Cuts, Call For Audit
[6] ISAB Responds To Question Of Excess Hatchery Fish
[7] BPA Plans Rate Increase As Last Option
[1] Power Council Continues To Struggle With BPA Budget Crunch
[2] NMFS Attorney Sees God Squad On Horizon For BiOp Lawsuit
[3] Some Idaho Spring Redd Counts Are Best In Nearly 30 Years
[4] Senate Gives BPA Additional Borrowing Authority
[5] Groups Threaten To Sue For More Wild Steelhead Protection In Lower Columbia Gillnet Fishery
[1] Council Hears Up And Downriver Perspectives On Fish Needs
[2] Lawsuit Over Dredging Plan Dredges Up Old Arguments
[3] DC District Court Ruling On NW ESA Fish Issues Expected Soon
[4] Scientists Say Hatchery Steelhead May Hurt Wild Chinook Recovery
[5] Environment, F&W VP Alex Smith Moves To BPA's Business Line
[6] Scientists To Start Another Study Of Fish And Flow Issues
[7] Judge Says Corps Complied With CWA Over Snake Dam Operations
[8] Conservation Groups To Petition For ESA Protection Of Lamprey
[9] Power Planning Council Calls Another Emergency Meeting
[1] BPA Calls For Deep Cuts To FY 2003 Fish Spending
[2] Council Hears More Tutorials On Flow And Survival
[3] Huge Columbia Chum Run Floods Lower River
[4] Climate Computer Prognosticates On Columbia Basin's Watery Future
[5] Unmarked Hatchery Fish Still Being Released
[1] Marathon Fish Research Review Comes Up With Some Winners
[2] Power Council Gets First Subbasin Plan And Earful From Science Panel
[3] New Fish Studies Suggest Cheap Survival Boost Possible At Some Dams
[4] Washington Irrigators Win New Water Rights
[5] Oregon Adopts Rules To Protect Native Fish
[6] Puget Sound Chum Run May Be Largest Since 1913
[7] More Record Redd Counts In Northwest Rivers
[8] BPA Pushes Rate Increase Decision To Next Year
[1] Oregon Plays Musical Chairs At Power Planning Council
[2] Steelhead Bonanza Hits Idaho Reel Hard
[3] Possible Changes In Hydro Ops May Save Fish And Money
[4] BPA Begins Swinging Budget Ax At F&W Program
[1] Power Council Votes On Proposals For Changing Mainstem Operations
[2] Latest Word On More Flow: Little Help To Fish
[3] Too Many Steelhead In Upper Columbia River, Biologists Say
[4] NMFS Says 2001 Upper Columbia Spring Run Should Be OK
[5] FERC Staff Pushes Scaled-Down Box Canyon Dam Conditions
[6] Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Begins Next Phase
[1] Fall Chinook Run On Track, But Prices Head Down
[2] Salmon Soldiers March Back Into Court Over BiOp
[3] State Wants More Info On Condit Dam Removal
[4] Funding For Oregon Hatcheries OK'd Again
[5] Review Out On Puget Sound Hatchery Operations
[6] Meyer Named Director Of Washington's Salmon Recovery Office
[1] BPA Says GAO Report Seriously Underestimates Fish Recovery Costs
[2] BPA Explains Last Year's Billion-Dollar Fish Costs
[3] Proposed Changes To Hydro Operations Could Save Millions
[4] RAND Report Stirs Dam Breaching Issue Back To Life
[5] Brogoitti Removal Hearing Canceled Indefinitely
[6] Debate Continues Over Steelhead Bycatch In Lower River Fishery
[1] Flow Proponents Sound Off As Council Begins Hydro Analysis
[2] Idaho, Montana Present New Recommendations For Hydro Operations
[3] State Sends Mixed Messages To Methow Water Users
[4] Six Hundred Thousand Fall Chinook Heading Our Way
[5] Oregon's Brogoitti Hangs On At NW Power Planning Council
[6] National Wildlife Federation Holds Off On Suing Grant County PUD
[7] More Mitchell Act Hatcheries May Face The Budget Axe
[1] NMFS Unveils Proposals For New ESA Listing Policy
[2] Oregon Council Member Fired By His Governor
[3] PacifiCorp Asks FERC To OK Condit Dam Removal Or Do Nothing
[4] NMFS To Action Agencies: Hydro BiOp Largely On Track
[5] Enviros Push NMFS To Designate Critical Habitat For West Coast Fish
[6] Researcher's Model Says Hatcheries Select For Less Fit Fish In Wild
[7] NMFS Concedes Need For Harvest EIS For Puget Sound
[1] High Chinook Jack Count After 2001 Drought
[2] Power Planning Council Waits For More Mainstem Amendments
[3] Final Supplemental EIS Issued In Support Of Condit Dam Removal
[4] ESA Reform Bill Leaves House Committee
[5] Judge Says EPA Must Consult With NMFS Over Pesticides
[6] Groups Say Puget Sound Chinook Hatcheries Violate ESA
[7] Power Council Says No To Oregon Over Changing Chair Vote
[8] Researcher Disputes Accuracy Of NMFS Extinction Analysis
[1] Council Members Get Good News From Ocean Research Update
[2] Researchers Say Fish Size May Explain Differences In Dam Survival
[3] Judge Yule Rules Again For Irrigators: Ecology May Yet Appeal
[4] Lower Granite Spring Run Tops Out At 75,000 Chinook, One Shad
[5] Critics Of Condit Dam Removal Cry Foul
[6] Hatcheries Face Federal Budget Cuts
[7] ESA Reform Bill Goes To House Committee For Mark Up
[1] NW Senators Want To Triple Federal Salmon Recovery Budget
[2] Columbia's Spring Chinook Run Second Best On Record
[3] ISAB Reviews Mainstem Passage Report
[4] Kitzhaber Calls For Voting Changes At NWPPC, Bigger Role For Tribes
[5] NMFS Approves Corps Of Engineers' Lower Columbia Dredging Plan
[6] Okanogan County Appeals Ruling Over Flows For Fish
[7] Washington State's Point Man On Salmon, Curt Smitch, To Retire
[8] Sando Named To Head CBWFA
[1] Astronomical Goals Set For Puget Sound Salmon Recovery
[2] Federal Judge Accepts Consent Decree On Critical Habitat
[3] Locals, Feds Reach Final Methow Valley Water Agreement
[4] National Wildlife, Others May Sue Grant PUD Over Priest Rapids
[5] Little Evidence For Last Year's So-Called 'Salmon Massacre'
[6] Council Wrestles With Questions Over Mainstem Flow Policy
[7] FPC Oversight Board Appointed After Long Wait
[8] NHA, American Rivers Press Feds For Turbine Research Funding
[9] Action Agencies Say They're On Track With New BiOp
[1] Methow Irrigators Say OK To Potential Settlement
[2] Conservation Groups File Petition To Protect Wild Fish Only
[3] Fish Managers Twice Downsize Chinook Run
[4] Scientists Piece Together Last 2000 Years Of Salmon Productivity
[5] Energy Bill Passes Senate; BPA Scores Borrowing Victory
[1] NMFS Releases Interim Recovery Goals For Columbia Basin Stocks
[2] DC Judge Says No To Enviro Intervention In Critical Habitat Lawsuit
[3] Chelan Proceeds With Construction Of $80 Million Fish Bypass System
[4] Power Council OK's More Fish And Wildlife Spending
[5] Hatchery Releases Sick Fish; Bonneville Dam Disinfected
[6] Spill Program Starts With Few Fish Yet To Save
[1] Judge Rules For Feds In Methow Valley Water Case
[2] House Bills Call For Peer Review In ESA Processes
[3] NMFS Hosts Watershed Workshop In Seattle
[4] Judge Yule Rules: Irrigators Back To Square One
[5] FERC Grants Tacoma Speedy License For Cowlitz Hydro Project
[6] Experimental Fishery Nets Early Spring Profits
[7] Budget Woes Hit Washington State Salmon Recovery Office
[1] NMFS Caves On Critical Habitat
[2] Debate Over BPA Spill For Hatchery Fish Now Annual Event
[3] Sports Fisheries Bring Cash Boon To Northwest
[4] Survival Of Wild Broodstock Coho Lower Than Wild Ones
[5] Environmental Groups Flunk Feds' Slow Salmon Recovery Efforts
[6] Giacometto Resigns From NWPPC; Hines Appointed In His Place
[1] Test Fishery May Net Lower Columbia Gillnetters Big Bucks
[2] Salmon's Two-Way Street: Cheap Protein And Expensive Icon
[3] Feds Accept Most De-Listing Petitions For West Coast Salmon Stocks
[4] NMFS Says It's Sorry Over Harvest Critique
[5] Shared Strategy Nearly Ready To Announce Recovery Goals
[1] Irrigators Win Flap Over Federal Flow Targets
[2] Council's Mainstem Program May Collide With BiOp Over Flows
[3] Methow, Wenatchee Fish Numbers Go Through Roof
[4] Fish Recovery Budget Up 19 Percent; Fish Counts Up 340 Percent
[5] Water Forecasters Still Predicting Below Normal Water Year
[6] Negative Influence On Wild Stocks By Hatchery Fish Chronicled In New Paper
[7] State Culverts Block 1,700 Miles Of Spawning Streams In Oregon
[8] IDFG Director Resigns, Cites "Philosophical Differences"
[9] BiOp Mediator Named By Judge [10] Wright Named BPA Head
[1] NMFS Calls For Mediation In BiOp Lawsuit
[2] Methow Valley Water Lawsuit Gets Messier All The Time
[3] Council Shrugs Off Scientific Review, Shoots Down Methow Land Buy
[4] Irrigators Win Skirmish With State Over Flow Issues
[5] PacifiCorp Drops Bid For Priest Rapids; Yakamas Persist
[6] Flow Reductions On Upper Columbia Spark BC Probe Of Fish Kill
[7] Good Returns Slated For Snake River Spring Chinook Run
[8] Marker, Allee Named To NW Power Planning Council F&W Positions
[1] Ninth Circuit Stays Hogan Ruling
[2] Fish Runs Are Over; Big Run On The Courts Begins
[3] Power Council Cranks Up Sub-Basin Planning Effort; Scientists Skeptical
[4] Arrowleaf Proposal Bounces Back To Science Panel For Another Look
[5] Two Years Late, Corps Announces Its "99 Decision," Says Dams Will Stay
[6] Enviros Say BPA Could Have Spilled More For Fish; Agency Disagrees
[7] BPA Ends Fiscal Year In Red; Slight Loss Projected Next Year
[8] So Many Culverts, So Little Money, Says GAO Report
[9] Another Big Run Forecast For Columbia River [10] Chum Salmon Spawning Successfully In Lower Columbia [11] BPA Releases Draft Study of Juvenile Spring Migrants
[1] NMFS Changes Course After Decision Not To Appeal Hogan Ruling
[2] Region Reacts To NMFS' ESA Policy Shift; Enviros Can Intervene In Case
[3] Optimistic Redd Counts Coming From Idaho
[4] Mid-C Fish Show Little Ill From Low Flows
[5] Science Panel Knocks NMFS Over Harvest Policies
[1] Judge Hogan Wants More Time To Decide Coho Appeal
[2] Two More De-Listing Petitions Filed In Wake Of Hogan Decision
[3] Latest PIT Tag Study Finds "Modest" Benefits For Fish Transport
[4] Forecasters Hedge Bets For Normal Water Year
[5] PacifiCorp, Yakamas Start Competition For Priest Rapids License
[6] High Priority Fish Habitat Goes High And Dry
[7] Steelhead Season Opens On Upper Columbia
[8] BPA Faces Lawsuit Over This Year's Operations
[9] Respected Salmon Researcher Dr. Ted Bjornn Dies
[1] Puget Sound De-Listing Petition Filed: Enviros Go After Hogan Decision
[2] Fish Litigants To NMFS: Revoke Chinook Listings
[3] Irrigators Pour Disdain On New Water Initiative
[4] Sept. 11 Events May Affect Next Year's Salmon Budgets
[5] Montana's Stan Grace To Leave NW Power Planning Council
[1] Oregon ESU Ruling May Pave Way For More Fish De-Listings
[2] Irrigators Petition To De-list 7 Salmon And Steelhead Stocks
[3] Region Differs On De-listing Decision, Kitzhaber Supports Appeal
[4] Too Many Steelhead, So Little Time, Say Fish Managers
[5] BPA Just Says No To Direct Funding For State F&W Efforts
[6] IG Audit Surfaces On NMFS' Role In Salmon Recovery
[7] NOAA Picks Recovery Team For Columbia Basin
[1] Fall Chinook: The Good, the Bad, And The Ugly
[2] Science Panel on Salmon Recovery
[3] F&W Managers Ask For Moon: BPA Will Give Something Less
[4] Contingency Plan OK'd For Chums
[5] Terns Win Harassment Suit
[6] Lohn Named To Head Northwest NMFS Region
[7] BiOp Judge Suggests Mediation
[1] Columbia River Water Supply Improves: Flows, Spill Boosted
[2] The Mystery Of The Missing Steelhead
[3] Fall Chinook Season Gets Under Way
[4] PacifiCorp, Yakama Nation Will Apply For Priest Rapids License
[5] Court Dismisses Rest Of Skokomish Claims Against Tacoma
[6] More Emergency Fish Mitigation Recommended
[1] BPA Allows Some Summer Spill After All
[2] BiOp Lawsuit Simmers On Low Heat As More Intervenors Added
[3] Feds Face New Lawsuit Over Water And ESA, Maybe More
[4] Fall Fishing Season In Columbia River Now Open
[5] WA Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Fund Dam Breaching Study
[6] States, Tribes Weigh In On Big BiOp Implementation
[1] Lower Water Forecast Means No Summer Spill
[2] New Mainstem Planning Process Gets Underway
[3] Administration Hears From Region On BiOp, Pledges Support
[4] Mid-C Setback For New Fish Bypass Construction
[5] No Spill At Lower Snake Dam Helps Adult Run
[6] NMFS' Push For Brownlee Water Drowns After DC Meeting
[7] Good Salmon Show Throughout NW
[1] Spring Spill Ends: Is There Enough Left For Summer?
[2] Council's Power Reliability Report Questions BPA Spill Strategy
[3] FERC Gives Qualified 'Yes' To Less Spill At Grant Dams
[4] Region Weighs In On FERC's 'No-Spill' Option
[5] Idaho Power To Oppose NMFS Push For Brownlee Water
[6] New Twists To Old Fish Arguments In Journals
[7] Lamprey Harvest Ok'd For Willamette
[1] BPA Ups Spill Ante Over Memorial Day Weekend
[2] Congressmen Hear Testimony On Drought, Power and Fish
[3] No Decision From FERC Over Possible Changes To Mid-C Spill Regime
[4] Corps Of Engineers Gives Judge New ROD In CWA Lawsuit
[5] Smolts Show At McNary, But Spill Kills Barging Study
[6] 400 Scientists Discuss Ecosystems And Salmon Nutrients
[1] BPA's Spill Strategy Off Again, On Again
[2] Agreement Reached Over Excess Methow Hatchery Fish
[3] States, Tribes Called On To Help Implement Hydro BiOp
[4] High Priority Projects Get Funding
[5] Updated Extinction Study Excludes Abundant Years
[1] Feds Unveil Plan For Columbia Hydro System
[2] Power Planning Council Looks At Mid-C Spill Issues
[3] 27,000 Fish In One Day!
[4] Conservation Groups Threaten Lawsuits Over Flows
[5] Mike Field Says Goodbye To Power Council
[1] Power Council Wades Deeper Into Water Crisis
[2] Spring Run Builds Record Momentum
[3] WA State Settles With Irrigators Over New Permits
[4] Okanogan County Pulls Out Of Methow Basin Talks
[1] WA Says Council Process Flawed: Wants Direct Funding For ESA
[2] NWPPC Predicts Possible Power Deficit
[3] Feds Still On Fence Over Dam Operations
[4] Spring Chinook Run Starts Off With A Bang
[5] Spring Harvest BiOp Hits The Street
[6] State Fires Back In Culvert Lawsuit
[1] BPA Dumps Contingency Plan: Water Year Close To 'Rock Bottom'
[2] Water Forecast Down to 55 Percent
[3] Boondoggle at Bonneville? $2 Million Spill For Hatchery Fish
[4] High Priority Real Estate To Be Funded for Fish Protection
[5] Scientists Knock Regional Planning Tool
[6] Utilities Push Irrigation Buyback Deals
[7] Locke Declares Drought Emergency
[1] Judge Rules That Corps "Erred" Over Water Quality Issues
[2] Water Forecast Worsens: Hydro/Fish Debates Continues
[3] Spring Harvest Rates Boosted To Nab More Chinook
[4] Catholic Bishops Release Pastoral Letter On Columbia River
[5] BPA To Use F&W Contingency Credits To Pay Treasury
[1] BPA Floats Contingency Plan To Save Its Bacon--And Fish
[2] NMFS' Newest Survival Study Reinforces Earlier Results
[3] Runoff Forecast Continues To Drop
[4] Fish Managers Pan NMFS Transport Studies
[5] Methow Water Users Intend To Sue Feds
[6] Regional NMFS Job Down To Three Candidates
[7] New Study Looks At Impacts Of Hatchery Steelhead
[1] Fish Managers Fear Power Needs Will Short Salmon
[2] Power Council Adds Up BPA Fish And Wildlife Costs
[3] NMFS Watershed Workshop Plays To Sellout Crowd
[4] BPA Clarifies Position On BiOp Funding
[5] BPA Rate Increase Still Out Of Control
[6] 'Shared Strategy' For Puget Sound Meets Again
[7] Interim ODFW Director Named
[1] BPA Blinks At New BiOp
[2] Region Races To Court Over Fish
[3] Council Hears Briefing On BiOp
[4] Chum's The Word: NMFS Tries To Balance Listed ESUs
[5] Skagit Chum, Chinook Take Possible Hit
[6] Unhappy Legislators Help ODFW Director Out The Door
[7] Water Forecast On Low Side
[8] Wenatchee Chinook Numbers Excellent
[9] New Faces On Council
[1] Hydro BiOp: The Final Version
[2] The Difficulties Of Measuring Salmon Success
[3] Wild Fish Counts Up In Idaho
[4] Redd Counts Way Up In John Day River
[5] Large Numbers Of Fall Chinook Spawn Above Hanford
[6] Power Council's Rolling Fish Review Gets Underway
[7] Puget Sound Gears Up For Salmon Rules
[8] NMFS Survives Gorton Budget Language
[9] Insurance Policy Against Extinction: Freezing Salmon Sperm
[1] New NMFS Research: More Water May Mean Less Fish
[2] Bush And New Biop: An Iffy Situation At Best
[3] Crapo Calls For More Time To Improve BiOp
[4] Corps Research Review Unlocks More Salmon Secrets
[5] Bristol Bay Forecast May Signal Regime Shift
[6] Johansen To Leave BPA For Private Sector
[7] BPA Tries To Smooth Flows For Chums
[1] NMFS Takes Late Hits Over BiOp, But Says It's On Right Track
[2] Big Bucks BiOp In The Offing
[3] NWPPC Wades Into Hatchery vs. Wild Fish Debate
[4] Eastern WA Irrigators, City Of Pasco Sue State DOE Over Water Permits
[5] Northwest Salmon Science Goes To Center Stage
[6] Cushman Relicense Back At FERC Over ESA Issues
[7] Congress OKs $40 Million For Puget Sound Watershed Restoration
[1] Tri-County Salmon Effort Slowly Moves Ahead
[2] It's Unanimous! Council Approves New Fish and Wildlife Plan
[3] Showdown Over Hatchery Standards Tabled For Now
[4] Fall Chinook Run Falls Off: Steelhead Counts High--With Discrepancies
[5] Idaho Enviros Intend To Sue Everybody Over Stream Flows
[1] New Problem For Northwest: Too Many Fish!
[2] WA Knocks Federal Fish Recovery Planning
[3] President Threatens Veto Over Fish Issues: Dam Study Rider Dumped
[4] Hatchery Fish Will Seed Barren Streams
[1] NMFS Extinction Analysis Questioned At Workshop
[2] Most Tribal Fishermen Keep BPA-Purchased Nets From Getting Wet
[3] Gorton Goes After Gore On Breaching; Administration Fires Back
[4] House OK's $600 Million For 3 Years Of Salmon Recovery
[5] Senate Hears More Gripes Over Water For Salmon
[6] Corps Says 'Enough' To More John Day Drawdown Study
[7] Irrigators Point To Conflicts In Draft F&W Program
[1] NMFS Shuts Down Methow Irrigators Over Low Flows
[2] Council Faces Future Water Fights In New Planning Effort
[3] New BiOp Could Mean Big Change In Fall Power Generation
[4] Stelle To Step Down: NMFS Regional Administrator Leaves Sept. 15
[5] Upriver Tern Colony Takes Toll On Fish
[6] Federal Agencies Have Different Takes On 'Take'
[7] Extra Salmon Eggs May Fill Old Hatchery Basket
[8] Senators Grill Salmon Policymakers Over New BiOp
[1] NMFS Hints At More Input Into Power Council Process
[2] Power Planning Council Unveils New Vision Of F&W Program
[3] BPA Pulls Rank To Ease Power Crunch
[4] EPA Tells Corps It's Violating Clean Water Act
[5] Captive Broodstock Success--226 Sockeye Return to Redfish Lake
[6] Seattle City Council Endorses Dam Breaching On Snake
[7] Fish Supplementation Workshop Results Distilled
[8] Tacoma Hopes Salmon Plan Will Speed Cowlitz Relicense
[9] Montana Dam Relicense May Go To Court [10] Cushman Ghost May Return To Haunt FERC Chambers [11] Briefs: Fall Chinook Running Hard; NMFS Says "Never Mind" To Estuary BiOp; Senate Will Review Hydro Opinion
[1] Clinton Administration Says Snake Dams Will Stay For Now
[2] 400-Page BiOp Hits The Streets
[3] NW Governors Agree On Salmon Recovery Principles
[4] GAO, IEAB Find Fault With Corps' Lower Snake EIS
[5] Power Council Considers Standards For Hatcheries
[1] Four Dead Smolts Lead To Idaho Flow Agreement
[2] Next BiOp Still Promised By End of July
[3] Saving Water For Later Policy Nixed On Snake
[4] Grant PUD Dams Spill More For Fish
[5] Northwest Fish Runs Stay Hot, Alaska Cools
[6] Salmon Need Salmon, Says New Study
[7] Stelle Says He Will Stick Around
[8] Judge Marsh Resigns from US v. Oregon
[1] NMFS Announces 12-Step 4(d) Rule For Salmon Recovery
[2] Science Conference Struggles With Hatchery Technology
[3] More Water For Fighting May Mean Less For Fish
[4] Cal Faces New Options For Fish, Water Future
[5] Fishways Study Nixed By Appeals Court
[6] Briefs: Hydro System In Emergency Mode, And More
[1] Fish Managers Kill NMFS Chinook Survival Study
[2] Tribes Say No To Selective Fishing Methods
[3] Spring Chinook Run, One For the Record Books, Sort Of...
[4] Methow Irrigators Still Wrestling With NMFS
[5] Washington State Stumbles Over Spring Hatchery Surplus
[6] FERC Rejects Shortcut Relicensing For Priest Rapids Over Fish Issues
[7] Briefs: Hanford Hot New National Monument; Pikeminnow Program Reviewed
[1] Politics May Trump Science In Upcoming BiOp
[2] Fish Managers Boost Estimate As Spring Run Peaks
[3] Making Amends: Council Gets Input On F&W Program Changes
[4] Oregon Adopts Temporary Rule To Harvest Endangered Coho
[5] FERC Won't Reconsider Ruling On Enloe Dam License
[1] Up Close And Confusing: Next NMFS BiOp Close At Hand
[2] More Federal Feuding: EPA Blasts Corps; Snake DEIS
[3] BPA's MOA Means Big Buck Bonanza For Fish And Wildlife
[4] Big Spring Runs Bring Big Problems
[5] Hatchery Fish No Bargain, Economist Tells Power Council
[6] Pasco Hosts House Hearing On Salmon Issues
[7] Corps Lays Egg In Court Over Tern Relocation
[1] DC Paper Says White House Pressured Corps Over Snake EIS
[2] NMFS' 'Sobering' Extinction Estimates Questioned At Senate Hearing
[3] Columbia Fish Count Stays Hot-Tops 90,000
[4] Hearing Gets Mixed Report On WA Salmon Progress
[5] BPA Tells Senate It Won't Foot The Whole Fish Recovery Bill
[6] Oregon Sets Sport Fishery For Coho Salmon
[7] Unmarked Hatchery Fish Releases Confound Fish Counts
[8] PUD Wants More Collaboration On Enloe Dam License
[9] Study Says Snake Dams Can Be Replaced With Clean Energy Resources
[1] Spring Chinook Counts Start Off With Big Bang
[2] Snake Hatchery Return Rates Way Up, Says New Study
[3] Upper Columbia Stocks Could Be Down For The Count
[4] NMFS Modelers Go Public With 'Dire' Situation
[5] Fish Survival Standards Being Developed For Hydro System
[6] Proposed System Spill Options: High Costs, Dubious Benefits
[7] Judge Wants More Facts In Clean Water Act Lawsuit
[8] Corps' Final EIS On Snake Delayed Until After Election
[9] BPA Buys New Nets For Tribal Fishers [10] Seattle Judge Puts Tern Relocation Plan On Hold [11] Editor's Note: NW Fishletter's 100th Issue, Or, "It's The Ocean, Stupid"
[1] From The Ocean To Ice Harbor: Council Hears All About Water
[2] States Tell NMFS What's Wrong With Its 4(d) Rules
[3] Historian Warns Of Complicated Nature Of Fish Declines
[4] Fish-Friendlier Turbine Shows Promise At Bonneville Dam
[5] Enviro Groups Stage Pro-Breaching Event In DC
[6] Fall Chinook Numbers Up 300 Percent In Snake
[7] States Say Feds Unfair Over ESA Spring Harvest Issue
[1] Dam Bashers Dominate Seattle Hearing
[2] NMFS Draws Line In Sand Over Spring Harvest
[3] Kitzhaber Endorses Breaching Lower Snake Dams
[4] Feds Sued Over Fish Flows
[5] Dam License Rescinded Over NMFS Demand For Fish Ladder
[6] Puget Sound 4(d) Proposals Unveiled
[7] New Report Says WA State Has Failed To Enforce Environmental Laws
[8] Seattle Puts Fish First On The Skagit
[1] NMFS Responds To Critics Of Its Extinction Risk Assessment
[2] Possible Mid-Columbia Fish Goals Discussed
[3] EDT's Rosy Hatchery Assumptions Questioned
[4] Corps Declares War on Birds
[5] Mainstem Water Quality Issues Still Unsettled
[6] Precipitation Pretty Darn Average
[7] Administration Seeks More Salmon Money
[1] All Framework Alternatives Will Produce More Fish, Says Analysis
[2] Canadian Points To Ocean for Salmon Declines
[3] U.W. Researchers Unlock Mysteries of Deep and Not-So Deep
[4] ODFW Director Changes Tune Over Wild Fish Policy
[5] Tribes Take Fish Concerns to DC
[6] Drawdown Study Finds Few Fish Benefits
[7] Basin Forum Reheats Regional Controversies
[1] Power Council Begins F&W Amendment Process
[2] Justice Dept. Says Dam Breaching Best From Legal Standpoint
[3] Next BiOp Includes Recipe For More Spill
[4] Questions Raised Over Release of Unmarked Hatchery Fish
[5] Tribes Estimate Harvest Impacts to ESA Stocks
[6] Proposed Salmon Rules Likely To Shake Up Region
[7] Locke Says No To New River Governance Plan
[8] BPA Rate Case: F&W Testimony Tossed
[1] To Breach Or Not, That Is Still The Question
[2] Region Gets 4,000 Pages Of Dam Studies, But No Answer
[3] Federal 'Family' Still Feuding Over Salmon Recovery Options
[4] Power Council Funds New Nez Perce Hatchery
[5] Pros And Cons Of Hatchery Supplementation
[6] New Paper Raises More Questions on Fish Fitness
[7] NMFS 'Incidental Take' Rules Out Soon
[8] Vernita Flow Agreement Kicks In To Protect Salmon Eggs
[9] NMFS OK's Corps' $197 Million Dredging Project
[1] The Methow: Water for Fighting, Water For Fish
[2] More Legal Battles Coming Over Fish
[3] Judge OKs Killing Oregon Hatchery Fish
[4] More and Less Money For Hatcheries
[5] Enviros Call For Salmon Summit While Idaho Sporties Wait for Big Fish Year
[6] Skokomish Tribe Sues Over Dam Damage
[7] NW Governors Agree on Principles For New Governance Entity
[8] Caucus Seeks New Name For "Four-H" Paper
[1] Snake River Spring Run Shaping Up Big
[2] NMFS Releases Four H's Of The Apocalypse
[3] Feds Respond To 'A-Fish' Critics
[4] The Fifth 'H' Surfaces In Puget Sound Study
[5] Oregon Supports Enviros In CWA Lawsuit
[6] Council OK'S $33 Million More For Fish & Wildlife Program
[1] War of Words Over New Salmon Treaty
[2] NMFS Workshop Stresses Uncertainties About Salmon Recovery
[3] Suspect Study Used in National Anti-Dam Campaign
[4] Seattle Utility Steadies Flows For Fish
[5] More Money For Elwha Dam Removal
[6] GAO Study Finds Feds Overstate Hatchery Benefits
[7] Book Review: Salmon Without Rivers
[8] Puget Sound Bull Trout Listed
[9] Scientists Find Evidence For Two Regime Shifts Since 1965 [10] Net Ban Initiative Fails in Washington
[1] NMFS Says 1999 Survival Rates High
[2] Uncertainties Riddle Fall Chinook Analysis
[3] Hydro Ops Help Fall Chinook Below Bonneville
[4] Power Council Adopts Final Hatchery Report
[5] NWPPC Nixes $42 Million in F&W Proposals
[6] BPA Names New Fish Head
[7] PGE To Propose "Salmon-Friendly" Power
[8] Experts Say Snake Hotter Before Dams
[1] NMFS Releases Draft 'White Papers' on Flow, Fish Transport
[2] Net Ban Rhetoric Heats Up On Both Sides
[3] PacifiCorp Reaches Agreement To Remove Condit Dam
[4] Oregon Illegally Harvests Listed Coho
[5] NMFS Hosts Habitat Modeling Workshop
[6] Power Planning Council OKs $68 Million in F&W Projects
[7] Budget Rider Keeps BPA From Saving For Future Dam Breaching
[1] Water Fights Flare Up Over Fish Needs
[2] Kitzhaber Calls For New Forum To Save Northwest Power and Fish
[3] Alaska Catches Close To Record, Fraser Fizzles
[4] Fall Harvest On Columbia
[5] No Listing for Deschutes Fall Chinook
[6] BPA Says Fish Constraints Dim Outlook for Power Surplus
[7] Utility Buys Deschutes Spawning Habitat
[8] Frameworkers Updated on Analysis, Process Schedule
[1] NMFS Policy Workshop Focuses on Snake Issues
[2] EPA Tries To Sell Region On New Temperature Model
[3] Modelers Say John Day Drawdown Won't Help Snake Fish
[4] Corps Bumps Draft Snake Study Ahead Two Months
[5] Fall Chinook Show Up On Schedule
[1] Tribes Call NMFS Scientists Biased in PATH Funding Flap
[2] Harvest Rate Boosted For Snake River Fall Chinook
[3] Council Looks at Future Fish Framework
[4] 22 Sockeye Seen Heading for Idaho's Redfish Lake
[5] 107 House Members Sign Letter to Clinton About Dams
[6] More Dam Facts From Corps of Engineers
[7] Methow Biops Strongly Criticized
[8] Coho Harvest and Recovery Issues Pondered at OSU Conference
[9] Power Council's Hatchery Review Goes to Congress in October [10] Adult Survival to Lower Granite Up Four Times
[1] NMFS Still Fighting Locals Over Methow Water
[2] Trout Unlimited's Extinction Study Panned
[3] New Salmon Modeling Effort Unveiled By NMFS
[4] Corps Releases Estimates of Social, Economic Drawdown Costs
[5] Oregon Lists Last Wild Coho Under State's ESA
[6] Anti-Breaching Decree Passes House Resources Committee
[7] New Faces On Salmon Recovery Front
[1] Ocean Biggest Salmon Abundance Driver?
[2] Caspian Terns Test Biologists' Mettle
[3] Back to the Future for IT Policymakers
[4] More Motions in Clean Water Act Suit
[5] BPA's Johansen Speaks Out
[6] Northwest Govs Call for Annual F&W Assessment
[7] Seattle Watershed's HCP OK'd by City Council
[1] Science Panel Pans PATH, Hatchery Funding
[2] Agreement Over Pacific Salmon Treaty
[3] Locke Signs Salmon Bills
[4] Gorton Amendment Limits BPA's Future Dam Breaching Costs
[5] Tired Of Debating, BPA Prepares To Press Ex Parte Button
[6] Oregon Wild Fish Policy Debate Heats Up
[7] Senate Hearing Knocks "Secret" Federal Fish Meetings
[8] Columbia River Basin Forum Goes For Goals
[9] Don't Raise Utility Rates For Salmon, Poll Finds
[1] Dam Breaching Issue Aired By House Committee
[2] Record Run For Columbia Spring/Summer Jacks
[3] US-Canada Salmon Treaty Close At Hand
[4] Two Oregon Dams Slated For Removal
[5] Stakeholders Take Issue With Feds' Memo on Fish Costs
[6] NMFS OK With BPA's Future Fish Costs
[7] WA Legislature Passes Important Salmon Bills
[8] Kitzhaber Opposes Bill to Repeal Wild Fish Policy
[9] Court Dismisses DSIs' 1995 BiOp Complaint [10] Tribes Say Only Dam Breaching Would Support Treaty Obligations [11] PATH Process Meets the Mid-C's
[1] Bonneville Jack Count Third Highest On Record
[2] NMFS Shuts Down Methow Irrigators
[3] Rogue F&W Recovery Estimates Ruffle Some Regional Feathers
[4] Framework Fleshed Out, Forum Still Bare Bones
[5] Corps Releases Preliminary Recreation Study
[6] Spring Chinook Stay Cool In Oregon Streams
[7] Dam Removal Hearing Slated For May 27
[8] Congress and Climate Change Policy
[9] Briefs: WA's Timber/Fish Bill Passes; AK Tells NW To Fix Habitat
[1] Oregon F&W Commission Raises Questions About PATH
[2] Puget Sound Salmon Goals Unclear
[3] Tribes Want Tribs Exempt From Wild Fish Policy
[4] Economic Coalition To Sue NMFS Over Salmon 'Over-Harvests'
[5] BPA's Lohn Will Move To Power Planning Council
[6] Briefs: Cutler Called In; Ocean Fishing Regs Announced; Coast Guard Nabs Illegal Gillnetter
[1] NMFS Fish Appendix Finally Out
[2] Senators Bash Dam Breachers at Hood River Hearing
[3] Salmonless in Seattle: Senators Talk Recovery
[4] PFMC Sets Sport Coho Fishery
[5] Enviros Take Corps to Court Over Water Standards
[6] F&W Processes May Be Coming Together
[7] NMFS Issues Columbia Basin Hatchery BiOp
[8] Bias Question Over ISAB Members' Anti-Dam Stance
[9] Briefs: Am Rivers Top Ten, Spill Starts, Hanford Flows
[1] 200 Scientists Tell Clinton to Breach the Dams
[2] 1998 Wild Fall Run on Snake Revised Downward
[3] Canada Says Harvest Cuts Have Paid Off
[4] Tribes Knock Federal F&W Caucus
[5] Framework Process Nearly Out of Money
[1] Nine More Salmon and Steelhead Stocks Added to ESA List
[2] Corps Says Claims for Breaching Inaccurate
[3] Chapman on Dam Breaching
[4] Operations Begin to Help Hanford Fry
[5] NMFS Pushes New Regional Forum to Help With '99 Decision
[6] Ninth Circuit Upholds '95 NMFS Biop
[7] Oregon Report Finds No Benefit From Hatchboxes in Streams
[8] Questions Over Spill Study At The Dalles
[9] BRIEFS: Salmon Hearings, IDFG Head Ousted And More
[1] Wetter, Colder Climate Regime May Be Here
[2] Dam Backers Surprised By Locke’s Support
[3] Lethal Solution Recommended For Sea Lions
[4] Path Process Gets Public Airing
[5] Precip: Snow, Wind Mark Blustery January
[6] OSU Study Says Barged Fish Not Stressed Out
[7] Fish and Wildlife ‘Visions’ Outlined By Committee
[8] Oregon Hatchery Audit Finds Costs Outweigh Benefits
[9] Briefs: Fish Recovery, Alaska Runs, Climate, Hanford Reach, New CRITFC Head
[1] Pacific Ocean Pastures May Be Shrinking
[2] Debate Over Salmon Models May End Up In Congress
[3] Power Managers Propose Changes to Reduce Stranded Fish
[4] Hatchery Workshop Finds Little Consensus
[5] Montana Joins In As Forum Takes Shape
[6] ISAB Supports Dam Improvements for Adult Passage
[7] OR, NMFS Give Up Appeal of Coho Listing
[8] Clinton Budget Includes $100 Million for Salmon Recovery
[1] Power Council Gets Earful On Juvenile Fish Survival
[2] PATH Scientist Questions Dam Breaching Recommendation
[3] More Discussion Over Fish Stranding Policy
[4] New NWPPC Chair Elected
[5] Salmon Treaty Fix Offered By Conservation Group
[6] Precip Report: Wet and Wetter
[7] Oregon Science Panel Notes Problems With Hatcheries
[8] Locke Steps Up To Address Salmon Recovery
[9] Gorton Wants $310 Million For Fish [10] Nez Perce Tribe Settles Fish Claim [11] Judge Tells Feds to Respect MT's Drawdown Rule Curves
[1] More Polarization Over PATH Process
[2] Political Climate Shift Hits Idaho
[3] Basin Forum Still Two States Short
[4] F&W Frameworkers to Flesh Out Alternatives
[5] B-Run Steelhead Still in Decline
[6] Canada Announces New Direction For Salmon Allocation
[1] PATH Modelers Report on Year-End Results
[2] Scientists Find Fault With Basin Hatcheries
[3] More Discussion on Hanford Reach Stranding
[4] Heat Generated by Temperature Workshop
[5] Salmon Recovery Scorecard; More Processes Than Ever
[6] Framework Committee Starts Cooking
[7] PGE Considers Removing Little Sandy Dam
[8] Tri-State Fish Commissions Meet
[9] Exotic Virus May Threaten Fish
[1] Snake Fall Chinook Numbers Still Going Up
[2] Framework Workshop Goes Almost Nowhere
[3] Economists Pan ONRC Dam Study
[4] Corps Goes on the Road with Dam Study
[5] Energy Coalition Endorses Dam Breaching, With Caveats
[6] Power Council Contributes to Bird Re-Location
[7] Kitzhaber Wades in Over BPA's PATH Gripes
[8] Region Sticks With Present Flow Policy
[9] Hanford Reach Fish Stranding Study Updated
[1] Washington Habitat Plan Close at Hand
[2] NMFS Orders More Water for Spawners
[3] Budget Boost for Lower Columbia Net Pens
[4] Hatcheries and Endangered Fish: A Perspective
[5] Oceanic Climate Regime May be Shifting Gears
[6] More Flows for Cushman
[1] High Fish Survival Highlights Corps' Research Review
[2] Controversy over PATH Process Continues
[3] Gorton, White House Still at Odds Over Dams
[4] Governors Get Update on River Governance
[5] Framework Group Drafts Eco-Overview
[6] Corps' Budget Picture Improves
[7] Trouble on the Tucannon
[8] Little Success for Lower Snake Hatcheries
[9] Fed-State Conservation Partnership Announced
[1] Gloves Come Off Over Salmon Models
[2] Terns Produce Database Bonanza in Estuary
[3] Twice Tagged Salmon Runs Out of Luck
[4] Panel Says Region Needs Unified Fish Plan
[5] Corps Spending Bubble Bursts
[6] Council Budget Approved at $131.4 Million
[7] WA Salmon Recovery Process Plan Revs Up
[8] McGinty To Leave Top Environmental Spot at White House
[1] NMFS Coughs up In-River Harvest BiOp
[2] Administration Approves BPA's Fish Funding Principles
[3] Region Comments on F&W Principles
[4] Habitat Focus for Salmon Forum in Seattle
[5] Puget Sounders Still In Fish Recovery Denial
[6] Progress Detected in Framework Process
[7] Legislative Games Over Dams and Campaign Spending
[8] Principles for Sustainable Harvest Developed in New Report
[1] NMFS Policies Panned at Pasco Hearing
[2] Fall Harvest in Full Swing
[3] Judge Says NMFS Can't Bypass ESA Over Fall Harvest Concerns
[4] Feds OK More Fall Fishing
[5] BPA Extends Comment Period on Future Fish Options
[1] Agreement Reached Over Columbia River Fishery
[2] ISAB Calls for End to Hanford Fish Stranding
[3] Council's Scientific Framework Process Proceeds
[4] Aluminum Industry Goes after BPA in Ninth Circuit
[5] Corps Takes Heat, Gives Some Back
[6] Study Finds Higher Chinook Mortality from Contaminated Estuaries
[7] Analysis: Columbia River Fish Management Plan and the ESA
[8] McGinty, Gorton Trade Views; House Hearings Near on NMFS
[1] Policy Managers Hear Latest PATH Results
[2] NMFS Caves on Steelhead Harvest Reductions
[3] July Heat Tough on Salmon
[4] Senate Hearing on Three Sovereigns Amendment
[5] Slow Progress For Funding Framework Process
[6] Idaho Senator Wants $46 Million for Salmon Recovery
[7] Gorton Asks Corps to Drop Drawdown Survey
[8] Tacoma, Tribe Want Rehearing on Cushman Relicense
[9] Bodi Will Work for BPA [10] Feds List Oregon Coastal Coho Under ESA
[1] More Scrutiny For Future BPA F&W Options
[2] Dam Language Softened In Appropriations Rider
[3] Closer Look at Elwha Costs
[4] Another Elwha Removal Bill Sees Light
[5] Late Start, Logistics Sinks NMFS Net Exchange
[6] Justice Dept. Appeals Oregon Coho Decision
[7] Congressional Hearings Slated Over NMFS, ESA Issues
[8] Governors Want Input on River Governance Options
[1] State Water Managers Voice Concern Over NMFS Flow Policy
[2] Salmon Numbers Adding Up Slowly
[3] US, Canada Agree to Share Fraser Catch; No Deal with Alaska
[4] Tempers Flare Over Water Temp Questions
[5] Judge Rules Against Oregon's Coho Appeal
[6] Puget Sounders Want State, Local Governments to Solve Salmon Issues
[7] River Governance Task Force Meets Again
[8] Oregon Finds Problems with Steelhead Supplementation
[1] Power Council Wants $3.4 Million for New Scientific Framework
[2] Science Panel Reviews F&W Budget Recommendations
[3] House Slashes Salmon Budget; Compromise to Come
[4] Salmon Bills Fighting Through Congress
[5] Lawsuit Threatened Over BPA's Subscription Process
[6] Bodi Not Directly Involved in Potential BPA Suit
[7] El Niño Fizzling Fast
[8] CRITFC Director Reported Ready to Step Down
[9] NW House Members Want Feds to Share Fish Costs [10] Oregon Senate Confirms Bloch [11] Chelan & Douglas Sign HCP "Declaration": Grant On Hold [12] Harvest Agreement Near Between Canada, Washington State
[1] Judge Says Oregon Plan No Excuse Not to List Fish
[2] Three Sovereigns Process Develops New Twist
[3] NMFS Rule Change May Give Some Tribes More ESA Fish
[4] BPA Pressured to Develop New Fish Cap by Sept. 1
[5] Public Power Council Urges F&W Budget Restraint
[6] Two Bull Trout Populations Listed Under ESA
[7] Oregon Dam Gets Temporary Reprieve
[8] New Dam Slated for Umpqua Tributary
[9] Chemicals Found to Disrupt Immune Systems in Fish [10] BPA Head Talks Turkey About Fish [11] New Paper Explores Effects of Hatchery Stocks [12] Judge Rules Against Proposed Steelhead Hatchery EIS
[1] State, Tribes Air Views on Salmon Recovery
[2] Canadians Close All Coho Fishing in BC
[3] Analysis Finds Future Fish, Power Benefits from BPA
[4] Review of Corps Screen Project Down to Wire
[5] New Proposals for River Governance from NW Politicians
[6] Locke Names Members to Power Planning Council
[7] American Rivers v. NMFS Appealed to Ninth Circuit
[1] PATH Facilitator Says Idaho Fish and Game Misled Public
[2] Different Perspective on Salmon Extinction
[3] Canada Considers Big Cuts in Fleet, Fishing
[4] HCPs For Two Mid-Columbia PUDs Nearly