A congressional Endangered Species Act waiver for the Alaskan salmon
fishery has been rewritten so that instead, the federal government would
have to take several actions prior to applying any additional harvest restrictions.
The original waiver for fishing conducted according to the new U.S.
Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty was authored by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska,
and backed by Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles. But it was opposed by President
Clinton, the governors of Oregon and Washington and …
