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Legal Sparring Begins On 2010 Supplemental Salmon BiOp; Oregon Wants Document 'Vacated'
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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A coalition of fishing and conservation groups and the state of Oregon late last week asked that they be allowed to refresh their legal arguments for the withdrawal of the federal government's plan for assuring protected salmon and steelhead aren't jeopardized by Columbia-Snake river hydro projects.
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Pikeminnow Catch Ahead Of Last Year's Pace; One Angler Hooks 12 Tagged Fish For Six Grand
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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Warmer water conditions are likely contributing to the bumper crop of pikeminnow that has been caught so far this year in the Northern Pikeminnow Sport Reward Fishery Program in the lower Columbia and Snake rivers.
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Water Release Tweaks And Weather; Cooler Deschutes Compared To Columbia Brings In Steelhead
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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Longer, cooler nights and a lowering of Round Butte-Pelton water release temperatures have served to make the mouth of central Oregon's Deschutes River an inviting place for spawning steelhead to pause and rest before continuing their spawning journey there or further up the Columbia-Snake river system.
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USFWS Issues Funding For Priorities In Quagga-Zebra Mussel Western Waters Action Plan
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that nearly $600,000 will be awarded to nine projects targeting three of the highest priorities from the "Quagga-Zebra Mussel Action Plan for Western U.S. Waters."
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Corps Completes Cougar Dam Fish Collection Facility To Aid McKenzie River Salmon, Bull Trout
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed a fish collection and sorting facility on the South Fork McKenzie River just below Cougar Dam to support the recovery of endangered salmon and bull trout populations in the Willamette River basin.
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$27 Million Awarded To Remove Elwha Dams; Salmon Numbers Expected To Go From 3,000 to 300,000
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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Barnard Construction Company of Bozeman, Montana has been selected as the contractor to remove the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River in Washington.
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Though Hawaiian Garbage Plan Terminated, Yakama Nation Continues Legal Action With Eye On Future
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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The Yakama Nation and conservation groups continue to press legal action to prevent the import of Hawaiian garbage for storage at a Columbia River gorge landfill even though the waste transfer plan has been stalled for now.
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NOAA-NASA Study Shows New, Stronger Type Of El Nino Becoming More Common
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA.
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Tribes Open Commercial Fishery With Plenty Of Fish For Over-The-Bank Sales
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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The Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama tribes opened the first of three commercial fishing periods for the 2010 fall commercial season Tuesday.
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WDFW To Discuss Significant Fishing Changes On White Salmon River With Condit Dam Removal
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Friday, August 27, 2010 (PST) |
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With removal of Condit Dam set to begin next fall, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will hold a public meeting Aug. 31 in Underwood to discuss the future of sport fisheries on the White Salmon River.
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