West Coast commercial fishermen have told President Clinton they oppose
an increase in his $100 million Pacific Coast salmon recovery fund budget
now before Congress.
West Coast governors and members of Congress are seeking to increase
the amount in the fiscal year 2000 federal budget to $200 million or even
more.
In a March letter to Clinton, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s
Associations, which represents commercial and family businesses in California,
Oregon, …