Completion of a comprehensive review of Columbia Basin hatchery practices
may be pushed back to October while “holes” in the report to Congress are
filled.
Those holes include the development of “performance standards” by which
individual hatcheries can be judged and the refinement of proposed policy
implementation measures, according to John Shurts, general counsel for
the Northwest Power Planning Council. Those performance standards will
be included in the “implementation” section …
