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Information You Need To Know - 

 

The Coho and Other PNW Salmon:

 

Bogus Endangered Species Act Protections for "Wild" Coho Salmon Must Go - Pacific Legal Foundation Op/ed 3/01/04  

Status Review of Coho Salmon from Washington, Oregon, and California - NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-24

September, 1995 

Oregonian: Policy will put hatchery fish in salmon count 04/30/04

NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan - Our Vision

Jim Buchal: October 2001 Delisting Petition for the SONCC Coho and shortnose suckers and Lost River suckers

NOAA Fisheries Main Page

NOAA:  COHO LISTING STATUS MAP 

CHINOOK LISTING STATUS MAP  Showing the different West Coast ESU's (An Evolutionarily Significant Unit or "ESU" is a distinctive group of Pacific salmon, steelhead, or sea-run cutthroat trout.)  Other salmon/steelhead maps can be found here.

Oregon Coast Coho Decision (Alsea Valley Alliance v. Donald Evans)

NOAA Press Release (5/13/04) - Letter from NOAA 

Under Secretary Lautenbacher Jr. to Congress on 

why 26 NW Salmon populations will not be delisted

NOAA Press Release On New Pacific Salmon Recovery Plans 5/28/04 

NOAA: Highlights of 2004 Proposed Listing 

Determinations for 27 ESUs of Pacific Salmon and Steelhead 

NOAA: Chronology of Events Leading to NOAA Fisheries’ Hatchery Policy and Proposed Updated Listing Determinations  

California Fish & Game Pre-publication Notice of 

Regulation Change For SONCC Coho To Threatened 

Status on State ESA List .pdf file   

NOAA: Proposed ESU Listing Determinations Federal Register Notice Language  289 page .pdf file 

PLF Press Release:  Bush Administration Salmon 

Policy Puts Politics Before Science, the Law and People

NOAA: 

Artificial Propagation Workshop Report

- Salmonid Hatchery Inventory and Effects Report

- Salmon & Steelhead Hatchery Assessment Group Report  (PDF file 571kb) 

- West Coast Salmon Biological Review Team Updated Status Report

- Northwest Fisheries Science Center Memorandum on O.mykiss  (PDF file 94kb) 

- Chronology of Earlier Alsea Response Actions  

KWUA: May 18, 2004 Letter to Don Koch, Department of 

Fish and Game, Northern California – North Coast 

Region regarding Iron Gate hatchery operations

California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) 

responds to Klamath Water Users

KWUA: June 3, 2004 Follow Up Letter to CDFG on 

Klamath River Hatchery Operations

KWUA: June 23, 2004 Letter to Cal. Fish and Game 

Commission re: Coho listing

Columbia Basin Bulletin: REACTION RANGES FROM CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM TO LAWSUIT THREATS 5/28/04

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  PROPOSAL CONSIDERS 

ROLE OF HATCHERIES IN REBUILDING FISH RUNS 5/28/04

PLF:  June 9, 2004 Press Release       Ninth Circuit, Once Again, Upholds Decision Ordering Federal Fisheries Agency to Treat Hatchery Fish Equally

1930s California Fish and Game Report:  "The Salmon 

and the Fishery of Klamath River" plus "A Report o

n the 1930 Catch of King Salmon in Klamath River" 

by John O. Snyder of Stanford University  

July 8, 2004 Letter from Congressman Richard Pombo to the Honorable Don Evans, Secretary of the US Department of Commerce (head of NOAA/NMFS) about the decision to not delist but rather re-list numerous populations of West Coast Salmon and stating that he does not believe this decision to be a "correct interpretation" of the ESA.  .pdf 

Anadromous Fish In The Klamath River System  

Lots of information available

PLF:  Property Rights Threatened By Federal 

Government’s Newly Proposed Hatchery Salmon Policy

California Dept of Fish & Game Releases Final Report About Fish Kill On Klamath .pdf  

Document by fish-scientist David Vogel, directed 

to the Fish and Game's statements on the 2002 fish die-off. 

Document by fish-scientist David Vogel, directed to the Fish and Game's statements on the 2002 fish die-off.   Go HERE for Assessment of Klamath River Water Temperatures Downstream of Iron Gate Dam During September and October 2002, by David Vogel.

California Puts Coho on State Endangered List  Santa 

Rosa Press Democrat Aug 6, 2004 

Pacific Legal Foundation Announces New Fish 

Fight; Files Lawsuit To Delist Klamath Salmon

The American River’s Hidden Fish Kill:
181,000 Salmon Die Before Spawning by Dan Bacher 

Federal Register:  Endangered and Threatened Species:  

Proposed Policy on the Consideration of Hatchery-Origin 

Fish in Endangered Species Act Listing Determinations 

for Pacific Salmon and Steelhead  June 3, 2004 .pdf 

Shasta Tribal Chairman, Roy Hall, says that coho salmon are not native to the Klamath River system - Pioneer Press article - Sept 1, 2004  

USGS:  Klamath River Basin Hydrologic Conditions 

Prior to the September 2002 Die-Off of Salmon and Steelhead

Division of Fish and Game of California:  "Salmon of the Klamath River, California" 1930 Report  NEW

California Department of Fish and Game:  Recovery Strategy for California Coho Salmon Report to the Fish and Game Commission February 4, 2004 .pdf

San Francisco Chronicle:  Salmon kill linked to level of Klamath River's flow -- reduced for irrigation  Nov 19, 2003

Hatchery Information:

Siskiyou County Library : Program Information 

Sheet for Iron Gate Hatchery

Iron Gate Fish Hatchery

KRIS Information System

NMFS Salmon ESA Reports and Publications  

Statesman Journal:  Experts embark on salmon project October 27, 2004 

Alaska Department of Fish and Game:  2004 Inseason 

Alaska Salmon Summary - Commercial Fisheries 

Harvest and values for:   2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994

PLF:  PLF To File Lawsuit Challenging Proposed Hatchery Policy and ESA Relistings of Salmon and Steelhead Throughout the West November 16, 2004 

Capital Press Magazine:  Common sense 

goal for ESA regs

Oregonian: Klamath coho listing ruled illegal but protection stays for now Jan. 12, 2005 

Pacific Legal Foundation: Federal Court Says 

Endangered Species Listing of Klamath 

Coho Is Bogus  Jan. 12, 2005   

Eureka Times Standard:  Judge won't pull coho protections 

KWUA:  PCFFA Fish Die-Off Case Dismissed by 

Federal Judge January 13, 2005 

CBB:  NOAA Explains Critical Habitat Proposal for Salmon/Steelhead  

How do you tell a coho from a chinook salmon?  

California Department of Fish and Game .pdf   

NOAA:  Proposed critical habitat designations for Salmon and Steelhead 

Pioneer Press:  Coho return with a bang – to die January 12, 2005  

CBB:  NOAA Explains Critical Habitat Proposal for Salmon/Steelhead  January 14, 2004

NOAA Fisheries Proposes to Designate Critical 

Habitat for 20 Evolutionarily Significant Units 

(ESUs) of Salmon and Steelhead in the 

Northwest and California

Oregonian:  Coho report in line with Bush approach  January 27, 2005 

Becklin:  Oregon's Coho Salmon Are Partying Tonight

USFWS:  8 Peer-Reviewed Reasons of Salmon Decline

Fish scientist Dave Vogel explains the USFWS 8 

reasons why there was a decline in coho salmon in the Klamath River. 

He also describes the Yurok Tribe's report. Video by Anders Tomlinson.

Draft assessment: coastal coho levels viable

Oregon State Fish and Game:  Coastal Coho Assessment Overview 

Richard Pombo:  July 8, 2004 Letter to NOAA 

Secretary Evans on Salmon Policy and New 

Listings Under the ESA

Federal Register:  Notice Concerning Oregon Coast Coho Salmon -

Buchal:  Has Salmon Science Become a Cargo Cult?   

February, 2005

Environmental Protection Agency:  Salmon 2100 Project

Robert T. Lackey (fish biologist with EPA): Defending 

Reality - about the possibilities for restoring wild salmon 

to the Pacific Northwest 2000

Statesmen Journal:  Experts forecast grim future for salmon - Salmon 21 - Feb. 17, 2005

Marsha Armstrong, Siskiyou County Supervisor: Disease 

and Chinook  February 21, 2005

Marsha Armstrong, Siskiyou County Supervisor:  Scott River Water Trust February 21, 2005

Salem Statesmen Journal: Experts will discuss 

status of Oregon's Coastal coho salmon February 21, 2005

Bergeron:  Grange and Bucket Brigade hold meeting with Pacific Legal on Coho. Plus KBB notes from meeting March 2, 2005

Redding Record Searchlight:  Fall salmon count dips - 

Yearly fluctuations don't concern biologists  

February 10, 2005

Newport News:  Stakeholders debate re-listing or de-listing of Oregon coast coho March 9, 2005

AP:  Dearth of Klamath salmon restricts fishing in Oregon, California March 14, 2005

Coos Bay, OR:  Salmon industry braces for shorter season March 11, 2005

Auburn, CA:  A record salmon season on tap?  March 11, 2005

Statesman-Journal: Council may limit access to coho salmon March 16, 2005

Seattle Times:  Hatchery coho die when water pump fails March 17, 2005

Curry Pilot: Severe Limits on Salmon Proposed For South Coast March 16, 2005

Eugene Register-Guard:  Shorter salmon season proposed March 17, 2005

SF Gate:  Salmon prices expected to jump - due to low numbers of fish?  March 18, 2005

SF Gate:  Projections suggest banner year for salmon, striped bass March 20, 2005

NW Fishletter:  Scientists Debate Hatchery/Wild Issues In Seattle March 31, 2005

AP:  Study shows salmon spawned, thrived above Klamath dams April 2, 2005

American Fisheries Society:  Distribution of Anadromous Fishes in the Upper Klamath River Watershed Prior to Hydropower Dams—A Synthesis of the Historical Evidence .pdf

SF Gate:  Slim pickings seen for salmon April 2, 2005

Monterey Herald:  Salmon miss coming-out party  April 5, 2005

OPB:  Feds to Use Their Own Salmon Plan  April 7, 2005

Newport News-Times:  Restructuring the Oregon Fishing Industry April 6, 2005

US Water News:  Salmon coalition asks judge to rule 

federal plan illegal April 6, 2005

Seattle Times Opinion:  Plan preserves forests, streams by Doug Sutherland  April 7, 2005

Seattle Times Opinion:  This may be a bad deal for 

salmon  April 7, 2005

AP:  Fishermen seek disaster declaration over tight salmon seasons  April 12, 2005

CBB:  Salmon researcher looks at why some stay and 

some stray  April 22, 2005

Redding Record Searchlight Trinity flows to hit 4-decade high April 29, 2005

 

Times Standard:  High Trinity: Big water aimed at salmon restoration  May 10, 2005

OWEB:  The Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds - 

2003 - 2005 April 29, 2005

Volume 1 - The Oregon Plan for Salmon and 

Watersheds 2003-2005 Biennial Report .pdf

(Volume 2, due this summer, will detail the status 

of coastal coho salmon and evaluate the effects of 

Oregon's conservation effort to rebuild the populations 

of that species)

SF Chronicle:  Salmon fishery protections unnerve commercial fishermen  May 1, 2005

Oregonian:  Salmon to be reintroduced to Central 

Oregon - farmers worried May 8, 2005

Oregonian:  Oregon, Washington seek delay in U.S. ruling on Columbia River coho protection May 10, 2005

Times Standard:  Humboldt to see bucks for fish 

projects  May 9, 2005

Herald and News:  Salmon get a shot of water, but it's still a 'dry' year  May 11, 2005

Monterey:  Salmon Fishermen Hurting  May 12, 2005

Santa Rosa Press Democrat:  Salmon fishermen dive into politics  May 14, 2005

Steve Cheyne:  Response to "Salmon Fishermen 

Hurting  May 16, 2005

Pioneer Press:  Coho costs timber company $10 million  June 1, 2005

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA's ESA Salmon, 

Steelhead 'Status Review' Likely Delayed   June 10, 2005

NW Fishletter: NMFS Announces New ESA Hatchery Policy, Stock Status

AP:  NOAA Fisheries issues new hatchery policy, 

reviews ESA listings  June 16, 2005

NOAA Fisheries' Response to the Alsea Valley Alliance v. Evans U.S. District Court Ruling (Alsea decision)

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  New NOAA Policy Details 

How Hatchery Fish Will Fit In Listings June 17, 2005

AP:  Businesses sue California over salmon June 29, 2005

CA:  Landowners, Ranchers, Farmers and Businesses Sue State to Overturn Coho Decision June 29, 2005

Coho lawsuit fact sheet

Coho conservation measures

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Salmon survival, 

cleaner hydropower focus of ORNL research  June 29, 2005

Tidepool: Salmon find a judge who listens  June 28, 2005

Washington Post: Future of Salmon Leads to Dispute 

Over Federal Dams  July 2, 2005

Pioneer Press:  California State sued over coho July 7, 2005

Times-Standard:  Nothing dull about fishing on the North 

Coast these days  July 19, 2005

Times-Standard:  The Salmon River is missing spring salmon  Aug. 2, 2005

Eureka Reporter:   Salmon numbers lowest on record - 

Salmon River  Aug. 7, 2005

US Fish and Wildlife Service Report:  Klamath River Fish Die-off September 2002  Mar 2003 

ESPN: Federal Court rejects NW salmon recovery effort  

August, 2005

CBB:  NOAA Releases Final Salmon Critical Habitat Designations Aug 12, 2005

More information including a variety of related maps, documents, and data supporting the proposal for OR-WA can be found at:  NWR Salmon Critical Habitat Home Page

For California: http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/salmon.htm

CBB:  Bizarre Ocean Behavior Sets Stage for Coastal Dead Zone  August 12, 2005

Seattle Times:  Cool waters finally return to Northwest coast, 

but concerns linger (Upwellings of nutrient-rich cold water 

have finally arrived off the Pacific Northwest coast, purging 

the ocean of warmer surface temperatures that earlier in the 

year disrupted the food chain for seabirds, salmon and 

other maritime life.)  August 22, 2005

AP:  Northerly winds blow in too late for some animals  August 17, 2005

Statesman Journal: Public input sought for salmon plan 

August 20, 2005

Oregonian: Coho late arriving, but seem to be on the way  August 25, 2005

Statesman Journal:  Coho, salmon catch rates on the rise  

August 27, 2005

Times-Standard:   Counties’ salmon program poised for new federal initiative  Sept 5, 2005

USFWS Launches Review of Its Salmon Hatcheries  

August 15, 2005

Klamath River Fall Chinook Stock-Recruitment Analysis, Report of the Salmon Technical Team, September 2005 is available on the Pacific Fishery Management Council's Web site.

Redding Searchlight:  Fishing restrictions begin on 

Lower Klamath  Sept 10, 2005

Fishletter:  Lawsuit Planned Over Canadian Harvest Of US ESA-Listed Stocks  Sept 15, 2005

Oregon State University:  OSU, EPA Researchers 

Say Current Salmon Policies Don't Work  Sept 14, 2005

NOAA: Administration Introduces Proposal to Reauthorize Magnuson-Stevens Act  Sept 19, 2005

Newport News:  Coast coho not included in new listing  

Sept 23, 2005

Times-Standard:  (CA) DFG regulations now in effect on Klamath River  Sept 15, 2005

Idaho Statesman:  Next step for salmon will be courtroom or negotiating table  Oct 6, 2005

AP:  Endangered salmon numbers hurt by fishing   Oct 12, 2005

Oregonian Editorial:  It's do or die for salmon  Oct 12, 2005

AP:  Oregon opens new hatchery center  Oct 14, 2005

Herald and News:  Salmon Return to Klamath  Oct 16, 2005

Steve Cheyne:  Response to H&N's Article - Salmon 

Return to Klamath Oct 17, 2005

Phil Detrich, USFWS:  Salmon test in Upper Klamath Lake a major step  Oct 17, 2005

AP:  Hatchery Research Center points to new era of salmon production  Oct 18, 2005

Herald and News:  Chinook land in Klamath waters  Oct 19, 2005

Herald and News Editorial:  Salmon study raises many 

questions  Oct 20, 2005

Capital Press:  Klamath fish council looks at harvest policies  Oct 21, 2005

Capital Press:  9th Circuit rejects timing of coho plan  

Oct 21, 2005

Marcia Armstrong:  Where did the federal Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force money go?    Oct 23, 2005

Northwest Fishletter: Politicians Get Earful On Salmon 

Harvest, Canadian Interceptions  Oct 26, 2005

Klamath Courier:  Fisheries Task Force stirs up health concerns  Oct 26, 2005

SacBee:  Editorial: Final court for fish  Oct 27, 2005

Capital Press:  GAO looks at Klamath spending, not fish recovery  Nov 4, 2005

Capital Press:  Fish advocates speak to Fisheries Forum  

Nov 4, 2005

Times-Standard:  Salmon above the dams  Nov 12, 2005

Times-Standard Opinion:  Honesty crucial in Klamath 

dam process  Nov 12, 2005

Times-Standard:  Spawning new concerns  Nov 15, 2005

SeattlePI:  Canada's salmon fishery target of two lawsuits  Nov 16, 2005

AP:  Sacramento River salmon at highest population level 

in 24 years  Nov 20, 2005

Times-Standard Opinion:  Restore funding flows for salmon restoration  Nov 21, 2005

MSNBC:  (Oregon) Prosperous sea lions make fishermen 

angry  Nov 22, 2005

The Stockton Record:  Salmon fishing on the Trinity continues Nov 21, 2005

Curry County Pilot:  Coho Salmon a Candidate for 

Endangered List  Nov 23, 2005

Santa Rosa Press Democrat:  Klamath River 'summit' called to address salmon declines Nov 26, 2005

AP:  Commercial fishermen forming national organization  

Nov 28, 2005

AP:  Judge: Lawsuit challenging salmon policy can go forward  Dec 2, 2005

Bothell Herald, WA:  Work may stink, but it's great for the environment  Dec 2, 2005

Oregonian:  Fish programs fatten power bills  Dec 11, 2005

Oregonian:  Two lawsuits tackle NW salmon issues Dec 14, 2005

AP:  Lawsuit attacks salmon listings  Dec 14, 2005

Pacific Legal Foundation:  PLF Files Lawsuit Challenging 16 Salmon ESA Listings Throughout the West  Dec 13, 2005  

Lawsuit filed Oregon District Court Nov 28, 2005 (pdf)

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Fish Numbers May Reflect Down Turn in Ocean Productivity  Dec 16, 2005

AP:  Salmon survival ruling is appealed  Dec 22, 2005

Roseburg News-Review:  Coho salmon recovery plan designed to prevent listing   Dec 22, 2005

Coos Bay World Link:  Salmon season a hit despite closures  

Dec 23, 2005

Willits, CA News:  Klamath Coho get some help  Dec 23, 2005

 

Seattle KOMO News:  Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Buffers Around Salmon Streams  Jan 9, 2006

ODFW News Release:  Coastal Coho Stakeholders to meet in Newport  Jan 11, 2006

World Magazine:  Interview with Charley Dewberry, Ph.D. on Science and Salmon Recovery  Jan, 2006

Pacific Legal Foundation:  NOAA Finally Complies with 

PLF's 2001 Court Win; Oregon Coast Coho No Longer 

Warrants ESA Listing, Agency Says  Jan 17, 2008

AP:  Oregon coastal coho won't go back on threatened species list  Jan 17, 2006

Congressman Greg Walden Statement on NOAA 

Announcement that Oregon Coast Coho are No Longer Threatened  Jan 17, 2006

Roseburg News Review:  Fed's won't add coho to threatened species list  Jan 18, 2006

Cave Junction:  Bush Adviser, Agencies To Hear Salmon 

Remedies At Portland Conference  Jan 19, 2006

NOAA Press Release:  Alsea Response Oregon Coast Coho  Jan 17, 2006

Lincoln City, Oregon News Guard:  Left holding our breath  

(NOAA's Oregon Coho Decision)  Jan 24, 2006

Lincoln City, Oregon News Guard:  No-list decision may have area impacts  Jan 24, 2006

Lincoln City, Oregon News Guard:  What is a ‘coastal coho'?  

Jan 24, 2006

AP:  Administration pitches new salmon policy  Jan 25, 2006

ABC News:  Administration Pitches New Salmon Policy  Jan 25, 2006

Oregonian:  Effort to save wild fish will switch to smaller 

catch  Jan 26, 2006

Pioneer Press:  NOAA does not list coho  Jan 25, 2006

Eugene Register Guard:  Advocates float radical ideas 

to save salmon  Jan 26, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  White House Seeks Less Harvest, Hatchery Impacts on ESA Fish  Jan 27, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Support, Caution Expressed 

Over Harvest, Hatchery Effort  Jan 27, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Conference Looks At Ideas To Sustain Wild Salmon in 2100  Jan 27, 2006

Albany Democrat-Herald Opinion:  Salmon story goes 

on forever  Jan 29, 2006

NOAA:  Harvest and Hatcheries to be Reviewed as Part of Salmon Recovery Strategy  Jan 30, 2006

Daily Astorian Editorial:  We must not permit this 

(closing salmon hatcheries)  Jan 31, 2006

Capital Press:  New direction for salmon recovery  Feb 3, 2006

Times-Standard:  Meeting pares down a parasite plague  

(C. shasta & P. minibicornis)   Feb 3, 2006

Seattle PI Editorial:  Salmon Plan: Phony as a lure  Feb 3, 2006

Seattle Times Editorial:  The administration's no-plan 

salmon plan  Feb 5, 2006

Klamath Courier:   They did not restore the Klamath salmon in 20 years  Feb 8, 2006

Newport (OR) News:  NOAA, state seek to maintain 

funding for coastal coho despite non-re-listing  Feb 10, 2006

Times-Standard:  So few salmon?  Feb 17, 2006

Times-Standard:  'The fish aren't there'  Feb 22, 2006

LA Times:  The Northwest Salmon Win an Upstream Fight  Feb 22, 2006

Northwest Fishletter:  More Salmon Scrutiny Planned By 

Northwest Congressmen  Feb 22, 2006

Times-Standard:  Klamath salmon talks grind on  Feb 23, 2006

Oregonian:  Salmon season on the brink of lockout  

(Klamath River)  Feb 24, 2006

Newport News-Times 2006 Salmon season may be in jeopardy  Feb 24, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Facilitator Waldo To Lead NOAA Fisheries' Hatchery Review  Feb 24, 2006

Perc:  Bush Takes an Environmental Stand on Fishing  Jan 9, 2006

British Columbia, Canada: Large Salmon Losses due 

to Ocean Conditions  March 4, 2006

Dan Keppen (FFA):  A Watershed-Wide Approach to 

Recovering Fish? What a Concept!  Feb, 2006

Columbian:  Local view: Government's salmon plan a good start   March 8, 2006

NW Fishletter:  Spending For West Coast Chinook Tops 

ESA Expenditures By Federal Agencies   March 9, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Researcher Studies Spawning Salmon's Stream 'Engineering'  March 10, 2006

Canada Globe and Mail:  Fish-stocks mystery untangled - 

Scientist can predict survival rate of salmon  March 12, 2006

Northwest Fishletter:  Enviros Say Canadian Sockeye Runs In Big Trouble  March 10, 2006

BCNG:  Evidence sea lice kill migrating juvenile wild salmon  

March 13, 2006

OWEB Funds 22 Projects Supporting Coastal Coho  March 21, 2006

ODFW:  Oregon and Washington to expand sea lion 

control efforts in the Columbia River  March 17, 2006

Oregonian:  Oregon Governor to hold emergency summit next week on salmon crisis  March 23, 2006

Seattle PI:  Salmon forecast looks bleak  March 23, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Project Tracks Columbia River Salmon Ocean Migration  March 24, 2006

Seattle PI:  Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble   

March 31, 2006

AP:  Crafty sea lion befuddles fish biologists   March 31, 2006

AP:   As the chinook go, so go the orcas   April 4, 2006

Marcia Armstrong:  Fish Declines - Defining the Real Problems  April 5, 2006

NOAA/DOI:  Recommendation Measures to Improve Fish Habitat Along the Klamath        April 3, 2006

KATU 2:  Days may be numbered for problem sea lions  April 6, 2006

AP:  Lawsuit challenges use of hatchery fish in counts  April 7, 2006

Oregon:  Nonpareil Dam Fish Trap Serves As ODFW Fish Laboratory For Coho Salmon   April 13, 2006

Earthjustice Press Release:  Oregon Coho Salmon Defenders 

Seek to Restore Federal Protection   April 17, 2006

AP:  Salmon advocates to sue over Oregon Coastal coho   April 17, 2006
Eugene Register-Guard:  Oregon Coastal Coho Salmon regulations set   April 18, 2006 Daily Astorian Opinion:  You don’t have to hate sea lions to realize some control must be exercised   April 20, 2006
AP:  Hatchery salmon case heard in federal court   May 2, 2006 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Parasites' Genetic Variety May Be Best Way To Track Salmon   May 5, 2006
OSU Study:  Parasites Can More Accurately Track Salmon   May 10, 2006 AP:  Feds pay bounty for fish that prey on salmon   May 11, 2006
ODFW:  Coastal coho group to meet at Oregon Hatchery Research Center   May 16, 2006 Newport News Times:  Coastal coho group to meet at Oregon Hatchery Research Center   May 24, 2006
Salmonid Restoration Federation:  9th Annual Coho Confab - Aug 25 - 27 Washington Post:  Questions About Salmon Are Directed Upstream   May 31, 2006
Eureka Reporter:  Salmon habitat restoration grant received   June 1, 2006 Anchorage Daily News:  Project to track salmon in ocean   June 5, 2006
Globe and Mail, Canada:  Poor salmon runs feared due to warming Pacific   June 8, 2006 Canada.com:  DFO report: Warming seas hard on salmon   June 8, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin Canadian Ocean Report Observes Impacts to Marine Web, Fish   June 9, 2006

To view a copy of the annual Pacific Region State of the Ocean report, go to: http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci/psarc/OSRs/StateofOceans2005fnl.pdf

Joseph C. Greene, Retired EPA Research Biologist:  The Effect of Ocean Conditions on Salmon Survival and Returns

Joseph C. Greene, Retired EPA Research Biologist:  Klamath River 2002 Fish Kill. Times-Standard:  CA State court backs coho protection rules   June 14, 2006
USF&WS:  FWS 2006 Klamath River Pathogen Monitoring report,   June 8, 2006 
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Research:  Adult Salmon Survival 98 Percent Dam to Dam   June 16, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Developing Tools to Match Ocean Conditions, Fish Runs   June 16, 2006 Yreka Siskiyou Daily News Fish screens to protect coho salmon in Scott River dedicated   June 19, 2006
State of Jefferson Rancher:   Coalition meeting - Meth dump killed 32,000 chinook in 2002   May 31, 2006 House Resource Committee Press Release:  NOAA status of stocks report shows progress, sustainability in America 's fisheries   June 20, 2006
NW Fishletter:  Ocean Conditions Improve For This Year's Outmigration, So Far   June 28, 2006 NW Fishletter:  Pit-Tag Results Puncture Conventional Wisdom Of Dam Effects On Returning Salmon    June 28, 2006
Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife:  Nuisance seal and sea lion control efforts set to begin on the Rogue River   June 27, 2006 Medford Mail Tribune:  Cracking down on thieving sea lions   June 29, 2006
Oregonian:  Cycle of life in ocean spinning into extremes   July 2, 2006 AP:  Court rejects challenge to salmon rules from commercial fishermen   July 6, 2006
ESWR Update: Natural and hatchery fish can be treated differently under MSA   July 6, 2006 Pacific Legal Foundation:  Brooks Comments on 9th Circuit Ruling in Chinook Salmon Case   July 6, 2006
Montana KRTV:  Salmon recovery expenditures draw comment at hearing  July 8, 2006 Times-Standard:  Klamath turning out few young salmon   July 12, 2006
Yreka's Siskiyou Daily:  32 fish screens on Scott River   July 6, 2006 Wild Salmon:  Federal Court Hears Concerns of Salmon Advocates Over Direction of Northwest Salmon Recovery Plan   July 21, 2006
Herald and News Letter:  Trinity water is the solution   July 22, 2006 Idaho Statesman:  Technology adds new wrinkle to salmon debate   July 23, 2006
AP:  Idaho tribe, BPA at odds over new Oregon chinook hatchery  Aug 1, 2006 UPI:  NMFS supports the removal of the dams to facilitate salmon spawning   Aug 3, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Research Uses DNA to Identify Ocean Salmon's Home River   Aug 4, 2006
Oregonian Editorial:  At last, an opening for Klamath salmon   Aug 6, 2006
NW Fishletter:  West Coast Salmon Recovery Fund Fully Restored . . . For Now   Aug 8, 2006 AP:  A brighter future for salmon -Barcodes, genetic testing could help West Coast fleets   Aug 13, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  'Wobbling' Jet Stream Impacts Upwelling, Marine Food Web   Aug 18, 2006
Robert T. Lackey:  The Savvy Salmon Technocrat: Life's Little Rules. (1999) (PDF, 14 pp., 37 KB)
Robert T. Lackey:  Policy Conundrum: Restoring Wild Salmon to the Pacific Northwest. (2001) (PDF, 6 pp., 74 KB) Robert T. Lackey:  Defending Reality: The Future of Salmon in the Pacific Northwest. (2001) (PDF, 5 pp., 80 KB)
Robert T. Lackey:  Salmon and the Endangered Species Act: Troublesome Questions. (2001) (PDF, 7 pp., 94 KB) Robert T. Lackey:  Restoring Wild Salmon to the Pacific Northwest: Framing the Risk Question. (2002) (PDF, 13 pp., 92 KB)
Robert T. Lackey:  Salmon Recovery: Learning from Successes and Failures. (2002) (PDF, 9 pp., 72 KB) Robert T. Lackey:  Pacific Northwest Salmon: Forecasting Their Status in 2100. (2003) (PDF, 74 pp., 280 KB)
Robert T. Lackey:  Adding Nutrients to Enhance Salmon Runs: Developing a Coherent Public Policy. (2003) (PDF, 5 pp., 73 KB) Robert T. Lackey:  Estimating the Size of Historical Oregon Salmon Runs. (2005) (PDF, 21 pp., 84 KB)
Robert T. Lackey:   Economic Growth and Salmon Recovery: An Irreconcilable Conflict?. (2005) (PDF, 8 pp., 83 KB) Robert T. Lackey:  Fisheries: History, Science, and Management. (2005) (PDF, 20 pp., 160 KB)
Robert T. Lackey:   Policy Options to Reverse the Decline of Wild Pacific Salmon. (2006) (PDF, 18 pp, 84 KB) Robert T. Lackey:  Salmon 2100: The Future of Wild Pacific Salmon. (2006) (PDF, 7 pp., 367 KB)
Eureka Reporter:  Project aims to restore Trinity salmon   Aug 27, 2006 Grays Harbor Daily World:  Effects of coastal ‘dead zone’ unclear   Aug 29, 2006
Oregonian:  Bacteria moving in to coastal 'dead zone'   Sept 1, 2006 OSU Mark Floyd:  Can northwest salmon survive?   Sept 2, 2006
Oregonian:  Salmon-tracking tags spawn political battles   Sept 6, 2006 Times-Standard:  Stream riddle - Redwood Creek Watershed   Sept 17, 2006
Roseburg News-Review:  Riparian recovery   Sept 17, 2006 NOAA:  NOAA to Develop Recovery Plans for California Salmon and Steelhead   Sept 19, 2006
WSJ:  Inside the Failure Of $8 Billion Effort To Save Prized Fish (Columbia River)   Sept 19, 2006 OPB:  WA, OR Seek Permit to Kill Salmon-Eating Sea Lions   Sept 21, 2006
Oregonian:  Bonneville Dam sea lions may end up sleeping with the fishes   Sept 21, 2006 Applied Biosystems:  Advances in Genetic Analysis Technology Aid Wild Salmon   Sept 21, 2006
Oregonian:  States want fish-gorging sea lions put on hit list   Sept 22, 2006 Capital Press:  Heat threatens hardy salmon   Sept 22, 2006
KBC:  Minutes of meeting on Saving the Klamath River Salmon - Development of an Intervention Strategy  July 20, 2006 Oregonian:  Dead zone off coast shows sign of rebirth   Sept 27, 2006
AP:  Study finds lice from fish farms kill tiny salmon   Oct 3, 2006 Globe and Mail:  Sea lice killed up to 95% of salmon, team finds   Oct 3, 2006
Vancouver Sun:  Sea lice 'killing off wild salmon'   Oct 3, 2006 Lewis Research Group:  Infection and mortality of wild salmon by parasitic sea lice from fish farms  Sept 27, 2006
Capital Press Editorial:  Congress must act to prevent water crisis  Oct 6, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Science Center to Hold Symposium on Salmon Evolution   Oct 6, 2006 WSJ Letters:  Upstream Battle to Save the Salmon (Bob Lohn & Jeff Curtis)   Oct 4, 2006
AP:  Two former governors endorse breaching four Snake River dams   Oct 6, 2006 AP:  Study: Modern Hatcheries Aid Wild Salmon   Oct 10, 2006
Oregonian:  Flaw limits captive fish, study says   Oct 11, 2006 Capital Press:  Biologist challenges Klamath models   Oct 13, 2006
New 49'ers Club:  Ongoing Karuk/DFG Litigation: DFG Says Gold Dredgers are Harming Fish!   Oct, 2006 AP:  Branding helps target problem sea lions   Oct 14, 2006
Oregonian Editorial:  Salmon Recovery doesn't begin, or end, in concrete   Oct 16, 2006 Utah State University:  Hardy II Study Results - Evaluation of Instream Flow Needs in the Lower Klamath River – Phase II Final Report   July, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Salmon Tracing Study 

A Success, May Expand To Entire Coast   Oct 20, 2006

LA Times:  Hazing keeps big pests at bay in Oregon   Oct 22, 2006
Times-Standard:  Salmon still going strong   Oct 26, 2006  Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Hatchery Review Aims To Balance Harvest, ESA Protections   Oct 27, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Five Lawsuits Swirl Around Hatchery VS. Wild Listing Policy   Oct 27, 2006 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Big Coho Run At Willamette Falls Opens Unique Fishing Chance   Oct 27, 2006
Oregon Dept Fish & Wildlife:   ODFW schedules public meetings on Oregon Coast Coho Conservation Plan  Oct 26, 2006 ODF&W Press Release:  Fish Passage Task Force to meet in Klamath Falls   Oct 30, 2006
AP:  Ocean Dead Zone Off Oregon Dissipating   Oct 31, 2006 Northwest Fishletter:  Council Boosts Funding For Controversial Fish Survival Study   Oct 31, 2006

Northwest Fishletter:  Success Of Updated Hatchery Programs Still Unproven   Oct 31, 2006

Pacific Fishery Management Council:  Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment for Pacific Coast Salmon Plan Amendment 15: An Initiative to Provide De Minimis Ocean Fishing Opportunity for Klamath River Fall Chinook (.pdf file)  October 2006

Seattle PI:  'Following salmon science' not easy   Nov 2, 2006

Times-Standard:  Klamath fish health session planned   Nov 2, 2006

AP:  California groups upset over handling of rules to protect Coho salmon   Nov 2, 2006

Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Researchers Study Ocean Recovery From PNW 'Dead Zone'   Nov 3, 2006

Mother Jones:  Fishermen protest to restore the Klamath River   April 24, 2006

SitNews - Ketchikan, AK:  ADF&G Releases Summary of the 2006 Salmon Season   Nov 3, 2006

Capital Press:  Price for water-for-salmon tradeoff too costly   Nov 3, 2006

Seattle PI:  Industrial salmon costly to environment   Nov 8, 2006

Wall Street Journal:  Save the Fish   Nov 14, 2006

Pioneer Press:  Learn what is up with Scott River Salmon at Watershed Council Nov 21   Nov 15, 2006

Northwest Fishletter:  A Revolution In Fish Tracking Gets Under Way   Nov 20, 2006

Seattle Times:  In north-central Washington, coho salmon are fighting the odds   Nov 20, 2006

Siskiyou Daily News:  Scott River Watershed Council discusses salmon, steelhead   Nov 21, 2006 Northwest Fishletter:  Scientist Says Dams May Not Be Limiting Fish Recovery   Nov 20, 2006
Capital Press:  Klamath consultation in doubt - Fishery agencies demand specifics   Nov 24, 2006 Capital Press:  Is worm the link in Klamath fish ailment?   Nov 24, 2006
Capital Press:  For salmon, dammed or  undammed makes no difference   Nov 24, 2006 Idaho Statesman:   Editorial: Congress needs to rethink salmon recovery   Nov 26, 2006
AP:  States seek authority to kill sea lions eating salmon   Nov 27, 2006 Herald and News:  Salmon return to Klamath foreseen   Nov 28, 2006
Klamath Echoes:  Link River  1967 Columbia Basin Bulletin: Science Center Symposium On Salmon Evolution Next Week   Dec 1, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Research Could Aid In Predicting Timing Of Salmon Return   Dec 1, 2006 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Study Documents Global Warming Link To Ocean Productivity   Dec 8, 2006
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Research Looks at Aspects of Adult Salmon Homing Behavior   Dec 15, 2006 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  New Ocean Index Tool Forecasts Northwest Salmon Returns   Dec 15, 2006
AP:  Ore. scientists hope mussel research will yield salmon answers   Dec 31, 2006 The New 49'ers:  Karuk Final Decision on Klamath River Suction Dredging Regulations   Jan 6, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Conference Looks at Pacific Salmon Resilience, Sustainability   Jan 12, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle:  Seals, sea lions may endanger state's fisheries   Jan 15, 2007
Oregon State University:  Pathways to Resilience:  Sustaining Pacific Salmon in a Changing World Conference  Jan 2007 The Coalition for Idaho Water, Inc. Press Release:  Acoustic Tag Salmon Study Refutes Environmentalists' Breaching Benefits Claims   Jan 17, 2007

Kintama Research Corporation:  Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST): Results from the Acoustic Tracking Study on Survival of Columbia River Salmon   2006  (.pdf)

AP:  Water pollution suit aims to make dams' cost prohibitive   Jan 18, 2007 Herald and News:  Utility defends Klamath River hatchery   Jan 19, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Study Aims to Shed More Light on Delayed Mortality Thesis   Jan 19, 2007 Santa Rosa Press Democrat Along the Klamath - River's rebirth - Dams blamed in part for driving salmon to near-extinction levels   Jan 21, 2007
Siskiyou Daily News:  Klamath River fishery management conference in Fortuna   Jan 24, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Briefings Debate How Hatchery Salmon Fit With ESA Listings   Jan 26, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Seeks Comment On Ocean Fisheries Research Plan   Jan 26, 2007 Scotsman.com:  Sea change spawns shrinking salmon   Jan 28, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle:  5 dozen killer whales believed to be hunting salmon off S.F. coast   Jan 30, 2007 Eureka Reporter:  Two-day Klamath River Basin Fish Health Conference begins today   Jan 31, 2007
Times-Standard:  Klamath salmon still ailing   Feb 1, 2007 Eureka Reporter:  Highlighting ongoing research   Feb 1, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Process Begins To Consider Lethal Removal of Sea Lions   Feb 2, 2007 LA Times Opinion:  The tide may be turning for salmon   Feb 4, 2007
Times-Standard:  Lean year for salmon on Klamath   Feb 7, 2007 Pioneer Press Letter:  Where have all the salmon gone?   Feb 7, 2007
North Coast Journal:  About a Worm - Researchers hone in on parasite-ridden Klamath River hotspots   Feb 8, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Fed's Defend Salmon ESA Listing Policies in Court Cases   Feb 9, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Proposed FCRPS Salmon Protection Actions Ready Next Month   Feb 9, 2007 Oregonian:  Notebook: Number of coho rising in Oregon   Feb 12, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Workshops to Focus on Fish Consumption, Water Quality Rules   Feb 23, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Ocean Conditions React Quickly to Climate Changes   Feb 23, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Ten Commandments for Fisheries Science, Management   Feb 23, 2007 BC Globe and Mail:  Fish farms linked to sea lice outbreak   Feb 25, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Russell Brooks Had Big Impact on Salmon Listing Policies   Mar 2, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Study:  Iron From Northwest Rivers Fuels Phytoplankton, Fish   Mar 2, 2007
Capital Press:  Fish and Game Commission denies coho delisting petition   Mar 1, 2007 Christian Science Monitor:  Climate change brews ocean trouble   Mar 8, 2007
Missoulian: Surf to new site for ocean of information on fisheries, water   Mar 12, 2007 Save Our Wild Salmon:  Salmon Economic Analysis and Planning Act Tackles Urgent Fiscal and Environmental Crisis   Mar 13, 2007
Idaho Statesman:  Bill asks for new studies of salmon   Mar 14, 2007 Statesman Journal:  State approves coho recovery plan approved   Mar 18, 2007
Eric Winford:  The State of the Salmon   Mar 20, 2007 Idaho Statesman Editorial:   Simpson, Sali needn't fear salmon studies   Mar 21, 2007
KGO:  Why Are Coho Salmon Disappearing?   Mar 21, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Council Seeks Comments To Revise 1997 Ocean Conditions Paper   Mar 23, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Study Details How Copper Reduces Salmon Predator Alarms   Mar 23, 2007 Save Our Wild Salmon Press Release:  New Attack on Endangered Species Act Poses Direct Threat to Pacific Northwest Salmon Recovery Efforts   Mar 28, 2007
Earth Justice Press Release:  Court Ruling Protects Salmon and Clean Water from Harmful Logging   April 2, 2007 Seattle Times Global warming could deal big blow to salmon   April 4, 2007
Reuters:  Acidic Oceans Threatening Sea Life, UN Panel Says   April 6, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Study Looks At Climate Change Impacts On Salmon Recovery   April 6, 2007
AP:  Evolving hatchery strategy aims to boost wild fish runs   April 7, 2007   Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Oral Arguments Set Monday on Oregon Coho ESA Listing Case   April 13, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Scientists' Latent Mortality Report:  No Clear Answers   April 13, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Acoustic Tag Study Compares Wild/Hatchery Migration Habits   April 13, 2007
Alaska Report:   Salmon win a round against NMFS   April 12, 2007 Daily Astorian:  Alsea hatchery program adds human help to Mother Nature   April 13, 2007
Bend Weekly:  ODFW donates salmon to Oregon Food Bank   April 13, 2007 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Editorial:  Court's ruling on salmon threatens dams as well as common sense   April 14, 2007
Northwest Fishletter :  Climate Change May Stymie Salmon Recovery Plans   April 16, 2007 AP:  Federal government defends decision not to list Oregon coho   April 16, 2007
Daily Astorian:  Captured sea lions swing back to Astoria 's O dock   April 16, 2007 USA TODAY:  Sea lions show salmon what endangered really is   April 16, 2007
AP:  Charleston sea lions getting bolder   April 16, 2007 Christian Science Monitor:  Wild salmon win respite in US court   April 17, 2007
AP:  Lawsuit Challenges Salmon Protection   April 18, 2007 Oregonian Editorial:  Stop feeding salmon to the lions   April 19, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Salmon-eating Sea Lions Again Showing Their Adaptive Nature  April 20, 2007 Capital Press:  New dam aids salmon recovery - Guest Commentary  April 27, 2007
The Olympian:  Dam removal helps coho salmon flourish  May 7, 2007 LA Times:  Chefs lobby D.C. to save wild salmon  May 8, 2007
AScribe Newswire:  Salmon Tracking Program Begins Second Season, Expands to California  May 16, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Salmon 'River Origin' Ocean Tracking Program Expands  May 18, 2007
KGW.com:  Sea lions eating record number of salmon at Bonneville Dam  May 18, 2007 AP:  New salmon recovery proposal does not consider dam breaching  May 22, 2007
Oregonian:  Newest recovery plan dismays salmon advocates  May 23, 2007 Newport News Times:  Researchers forecast salmon returns based on ocean indicators  May 23, 2007
Northwest Fishletter :  ISAB Says Fish Plans Need To Deal With Climate Change  May 24, 2007 HPN:  Salmon on the Run  June 5, 2007
New York Times:  Only Wild Fish Matter in ‘Endangered’ Count, Judge Rules  June 13, 2007 Northwest Fishletter:  States Split Over New Salmon Plan  June 14, 2007
Northwest Fishletter:  Federal Judge Rules NMFS Hatchery Policy Illegal  June 14, 2007 Northwest Fishletter:  Sea Lions Digest 4 Percent Of Upriver Run  June 14, 2007

Seattle PI Editorial:  Salmon And Owls: It's about habitat  June 14, 2007

Tacoma News-Tribune:  Salmon protection: Not just about genes  June 15, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Federal Judge Rejects NOAA's New Hatchery Listing Policy  June 15, 2007 Oregon Statesman Journal:  Judge says hatchery and wild fish differ  June 17, 2007
The Vancouver Columbian:  In our view: Stop the pretending  June 17, 2007 Wall Street Journal:  Letter - Dam Removal and the Recovery of Salmon  June 18, 2007
Idaho Statesman Editorial:  Judge's ruling is a victory for wild salmon  June 19, 2007 Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Editorial:  Hatchery fish should be counted as same  June 19, 2007
Seattle Times Editorial:  The administration's odd salmon count  June 20, 2007 Daily Astorian Editorial:  Wild salmon don't grow in a tank  June 20, 2007
Klamath Riverkeeper Press Release:  Klamath River Conditions Ripe for Another Fish Kill  June 20, 2007 Earthjustice Press Release:  Pacific Salmon at Risk from Pesticides  June 20, 2007
Times-Standard:  Fish-kill alert for Klamath  June 21, 2007 Save Our Wild Salmon Press Release:  Direction of Federal Salmon Plan Sparks Renewed Outrage  June 21, 2007
Vancouver Columbian:  Judge: Protect salmon better  June 21, 2007 Capital Press:  Judge discounts hatchery fish in steelhead recovery efforts - Ruling may affect agriculture in PNW and California (link to courts decision)  June 22, 2007
Vancouver Sun:  Salmon eco-system study urged  June 22, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Briefs Debate Method of Grouping Wild Salmon Populations  June 22, 2007
Redding Record Searchlight:  Fish kill worries increase  June 21, 2007 Bend Bulletin:   A new rite of passage for fish hatchery - new way to mark fish  June 27, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Brief Challenges Feds on Interbreeding Issue in Salmon Listings  June 29, 2007 Redding Searchlight:  Klamath, Trinity rivers angling regulations have begun for 2007  July 8, 2007
Oregon Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Press Release:  Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program committee meets in Klamath Falls   July 9, 2007 Seattle PI:  Expanding net of protection for salmon  July 10, 2007
Santa Cruz Sentinel:  Big fish brings big support for salmon protection  July 10, 2007 Times-Standard:  Feds release Klamath coho recovery plan  July 11, 2007  
Terence Jeffrey:  A Fish Is Just a Fish  July 11, 2007 Times-Standard:  Klamath volunteers carve paths to cold streams for salmon  July 12, 2007
Times-Standard:  Fish fight: Restoration money may be hung up over forest rules  July 14, 2007 AP:  Judge: Federal agency used flawed data in Ore. coho decision  July 16, 2007
Earthjustice Press Release:  Court Says Return Coho Protections in Oregon   July 17, 2007 Oregonian:  Judge: Science on coho ignored  July 17, 2007
Oregonian Editorial:  On coho, it's red faces all around  July 18, 2007 Oregonian:  Two states, divided by salmon  July 18, 2007
Barry Clausen:  What caused salmon deaths?  Feb 16, 2003 Capital Press:  Judge: Flawed science used in coho no-list decision  July 18, 2007
NOAA:  Recovery Plan for Klamath River Coho Salmon Available Online  July 19, 2007

Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act Klamath River Coho Salmon Recovery Plan

North Coast Journal:  Is the Klamath River headed for disaster, again?  July 19, 2007
AP:  Salmon die-off discovered on Oregon 's John Day River   July 19, 2007 Oregonian Counts predict big year for little salmon  July 20, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Indicators Show Improving Ocean Conditions For Salmon  July 20, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  This Year's Early Zooplankton Arrival Bodes Well For Salmon  July 20, 2007
Capital Press:  Ruling: Coho science flawed  July 20, 2007 Times-Standard:  Salmon bucks will have to be revived after Legislature's recess  July 21, 2007
Northwest Fishletter :  Oregon Judge Says NMFS Dissed 'Best Available Science' In Coho Decision  July 26, 2007 Northwest Fishletter :  Scientists Say Ocean Is Full Of Fish  July 26, 2007
Statesman Journal Opinion:  Are salmon really endangered?  Aug 2, 2007 Daily Astorian:  Salmon survey shows high level of juvenile coho and chinook'  Aug 2, 2007
AP:  Property rights group appeals U.S. judge's salmon count ruling  Aug 3, 2007 Capital Press:  Farm Bureau to take on hatchery ruling  Aug 3, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Appeal Takes Hatchery/Wild Listing Debate to Ninth Circuit  Aug 3, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Hearing Explores Proposed Bill to Expedite Sea Lion Removal  Aug 3, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Scientists Say Coastal Low-Oxygen Zones Forming Again  Aug 3, 2007 Associated Content:  Wild Salmon in Jeopardy in the Western United States  Aug 15, 2007
Earthjustice Press Release:  Judge Upholds Endangered Species Protections for Wild Salmon  Aug 15, 2007 AP:  Judge in Oregon says don't count hatchery fish with wild  Aug 15, 2007
Seattle PI:  Wild and hatchery salmon not equal  Aug 15, 2007 Pacific Legal Foundation Press Release:  PLF Vows Appeal of Salmon Ruling So That All Fish Get Counted  Aug 15, 2007
Oregonian:  Judge rules on salmon-counting issue  Aug 16, 2007 Times-Standard:  Salmon decision leaves protections  Aug 16, 2007
Northwest Fishletter :  Property Rights Group To Appeal Two ESA/Hatchery Fish Rulings  Aug 16, 2007 Northwest Fishletter :  House Committee Mulls Sea Lion-Kill Bill  Aug 16, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Judge says 16 salmon listings satisfy ESA; PLF to file appeal  Aug 17, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Ocean Productivity, Marine 'Upwelling' Driven By Jet Stream  Aug 17, 2007
Idaho Statesman:  Salmon ruling makes policy adhere to science  Aug 21, 2007 Pacific Legal Foundation:  PLF Vows Appeal of Salmon Ruling So That All Fish Get Counted  Aug 22, 2007
Seattle Times:  Tribes to sell Columbia River salmon  Aug 21, 2007 The Olympian:   Dicks promotes wild salmon stocks  Aug 22, 2007
Capital Press:  Coalition appeals discounting of hatchery fish  Aug 24, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Review Stresses Keeping Hatchery, Native Fish Segregated  Aug 24, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Parties Say Magistrate Acted as 'Science Arbiter' in Coho Case  Aug 24, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  OSU to Receive $20.6 Million to Study Ocean , Marine Food Web  Aug 24, 2007
Medford Mail Tribune:  Iron Gate Fish Hatchery  Sept 2, 2007 John R. Lott, Jr. and Sonya D. Jones:  The Endangered Species Act Out of Control  Sept 1, 2007
BPA , US Corps of Engineers, & Reclamation Press Release: Federal Executives Comment on New Approach for Salmon Recovery  Sept 6, 2007 Salem-News:  New Salmon Plan Follows Administration's Blueprint for Failure  Sept 6, 2007
Oregon Public Broadcasting:  New Dam Proposal Attempts To Recover Salmon Sept 7, 2007 Oregonian:  Feds reel out third salmon plan  Sept 7, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Agencies Outline Salmon Recovery Costs Past and Future  Sept 7, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Science Center , UW Sponsor Fishery Genetics Symposium  Sept 7, 2007
Eugene Register-Guard:  Another flawed fish plan: Latest version fails to consider dam changes  Sept 8, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Battle Over Hatchery Listing Policy Goes To Ninth Circuit  Sept 14, 2007
Northwest Fishletter   Do Ocean Conditions Trump Dam Effects?  Sept 20, 2007 Northwest Fishletter:  Agencies Release Assessment Of Future Dam Operations  Sept 20, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Feds, Oregon, Alsea Want Magistrate's Listing Findings Tossed  Sept 21, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Groups Take Hatchery/Wild Listing Issue to Appeals Court   Sept 28, 2007
North Coast Journal:  Hot Season - Salmon fishing on the Klamath River   Sept 27, 2007 Duke University Press Release:  California Salmon Could Be Harmed By More Dams  Sept 24, 2007
Eureka Reporter:  Secret lives of fish  Sept 23, 2007 AP:  Democratic senators wade into salmon issue  Oct 1, 2007
Portland Business Journal:  OSU Study: Hatchery fish fail to reproduce in wild  Oct 4, 2007 UK Fish Update:  Alaskan hatcheries could play role in salmon decline  Oct 4, 2007
Toronto Globe and Mail:  Salmon need help to survive climate change  Oct 5, 2007   Oregonian:  The hazards of being born in a bucket  Oct 6, 2007
AP:  Study: Hatchery Trout Spawn Less in Wild  Oct 4, 2007 Nature.com:  Hatcheries may not save endangered fish  Oct 4, 2007
Oregonian:  Hatchery fish found to be poor at survival  Oct 5, 2007 Seattle PI:  Use a car wash, the fish will thank you  Oct 9, 2007
Longview Daily News:  Shampoo, coffee, etc., harming fish in N.W. rivers  Oct 9, 2007 ENS:  Court Upholds Federal Listing for Oregon Coast Coho Salmon  Oct 9, 2007
AP:  Judge tells federal agency to reconsider Oregon coho protection  Oct 9, 2007 Seattle PI:  NOAA endorses plan for salmon recover in Upper Columbia River  Oct 9, 2007
Oregonian Fisheries must take new look at coho  Oct 10, 2007 Times-Standard:  Salmon funding clears first hurdle  Oct 10, 2007
Siskiyou County Supervisor Marcia Armstrong:  Clarification, Natural Resource Use Advisory Committee, fish  Oct 10, 2007 Eureka Reporter:  Senate approves Wiggins' salmon restoration bill  Oct 10, 2007
Northwest Fishletter :  Judge Gives NMFS 60 Days To Finalize Oregon Coho Listing  Oct 11, 2007 AP:  Oregon coastal coho may get a reprieve  Oct 11, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Panel Studies Options for Lethal Take of CA Sea Lions  Oct 12, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Hatchery Fish Show 'Stunning' Loss of Reproductive Ability  Oct 12, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Federal Judge Orders Reassessment of Coastal Coho ESA Status  Oct 12, 2007 Earthjustice Press Release:  Court Restores ESA Protection for Oregon Coho Salmon  Oct 10, 2007
Stockton Record:  A salmon run for the ages  Oct 17, 2007 Pioneer Press:  Oh no, more Coho! - We can only pray for rain - or should we?   Oct 17, 2007
ODF&W Press Release:  Helicopter will place logs in streams to benefit salmon and trout  Oct 16, 2007 Medford Mail Tribune:  Fish-friendly project opens Colestin Valley   Oct 25, 2007
Times-Standard:  Ocean council hears Klamath, fishing issues  Oct 26, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Fisheries Asks Judge For More Time On Coho Listing Case  Oct 26, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle:  Something weird is going on in the water  Oct 28, 2007 Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations Press Release:  West Coast Anglers and Fishermen Urge Congress to Protect and Restore Wild Salmon and Steelhead  Oct 31, 2007
NOAA Press Release:  NOAA Fisheries Service Announces Actions to Mitigate Effects of Hydropower System, Recover Salmon Stocks  Oct 31, 2007 Earthjustice Press Release:  Bush Administration Again Fails Pacific Northwest Salmon  Oct 31, 2007

Sacramento Bee:  Chinook salmon shortfall puzzles anglers, experts  Nov 1, 2007

AP:  Study to look at whether cormorants are harming salmon runs  Nov 1, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Task Force Recommends Lethal Removal of California Sea Lions  Nov 2, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Feds Get More Time For New Listing Decision For Oregon Coho  Nov 2, 2007
AP:  Groups ask judge to order rules for salmon-killing pesticides  Nov 5, 2007 Daily Astorian:  Salmon fight will grow more difficult  Nov 5, 2007
Oregon Public Broadcasting:  Lawsuit Claims Feds Aren't Doing Enough To Protect Salmon  Nov 6, 2007 Crescent City Triplicate:  Salmon migration slow, steady  Nov 6, 2007
Capital Press:  Salmon used to fight sprays  Nov 9, 2007 California Trout Press Release:  Coho Salmon Endangered Species Status Threatened: Appeals Court Hearing Set for Nov. 13  Nov 12, 2007
James Buchal:  What If Columbia and Snake River Dams Were Helping Salmon?  Nov 13, 2007 Pioneer Press:  Salmon: slow start, strong finish  Nov 14, 2007
Times-Standard:  Coho salmon threatened, groups charge  Nov 16, 2007 ENS:  DNA Fin-Printing Project Identifies Salmon Populations  Nov 15, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  UW Launches $4.1 Million Effort To Track Salmon With Genetic Markers  Nov 16, 2007 Science Daily Press Release:  DNA 'Fin-printing' Project For Salmon Launched  Nov 19, 2007
AP:  Bush administration drops effort to ease salmon protections  Nov 20, 2007 AP:  Appeals court upholds endangered species protections for coho  Nov 20, 2007
California Trout Press Release:  California Appeals Court Upholds Coho Salmon Endangered Species Status  Nov 20, 2007 Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition:  Washington Chefs Urge Congress to Restore Wild Pacific Salmon  Nov 29, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Science Advisory Panel Reviews Salmon Survival Study Methods  Nov 30, 2007 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Fed's Defend Hatchery Listing Policy In Appeals Court Brief  Nov 30, 2007
Seattle Times:  Fish and dams: Tell it to the judge  Nov 30. 2007 SacBee:  Fish benefit of a Klamath pact questioned  Dec 9, 2007
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Ninth Circuit Gets Appeal of Oregon Coho ESA-Listing Case  Dec 14, 2007 Pacific Legal Foundation Press Release:  PLF Appeals Trout Unlimited Court Ruling  Dec 15, 2007
Klamath Common Ground Alliance :  Klamath River Fish Disease:  Meeting To Fund Research  Dec 23, 2007 Umatilla Indian Bill Quaempts:   If we let the salmon die, we will be next  Dec 26, 2007
Jim Foley:  1855: scarcity of fish in the undammed Klamath  Jan 3, 2008 Oregonian:  Warming could fry salmon  Jan 6, 2008
Capital Press:  Groups seek review of coho ruling  Jan 11, 2008 AP:  Salmon arrive late, but Klamath Basin returns beating goals  Jan 11, 2008
Medford Mail Tribune:  Oregon study showing small streams may help wild salmon  Jan 14, 2008 E. Jay Donovan:  Appeals Court Will Rule on Oregon Salmon Plan  Feb 1, 2008
Crescent City Triplicate:  High-tech fish count  Jan 17, 2008 Federal Register:  Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish  (OR/CA)  Jan 16, 2008
Federal Register:  Availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment Considering the States of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington's Request for Lethal Removal Authority of California Sea Lions in Accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act  Jan 18, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Briefs Filed in Appeals Court on Wild vs. Hatchery Listing Policies  Jan 25, 2007
Daily Astorian Breaking the salmon code  Jan 26, 2008 Eureka Reporter:  Fisheries scientists to gather to discuss Klamath fish disease  Jan 26, 2008
Herald and News:  Upper Klamath may get salmon  Jan 28, 2008 Herald and News:  Salmon once common near Klamath  Jan 28, 2008
Daily Astorian:  Breaking the salmon code  Jan 30, 2008 Daily Astorian:  Bar code gives fish an identity  Jan 30, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Research Estimates Salmon Extinctions For Historical Baseline  Feb 1, 2008 AP:  Oregon coastal coho listed as threatened — again  Feb 4, 2008
NOAA Press Release:  NOAA’s Fisheries Service Lists Oregon Coast Coho for Federal Protection  Feb 5, 2008 Northwest Fishletter :  Cold Ocean Means More Salmon  Feb 7, 2008
Northwest Fishletter :  Feds Put Oregon Coho Back On ESA List  Feb 7, 2008 Vancouver Sun:  Pacific Salmon Forum now agrees sea lice are killing salmon  Feb 9, 2008
Federal Register:  Endangered and Threatened Species: Final Threatened Listing Determination, Final Protective Regulations, and Final Designation of Critical Habitat for the Oregon Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit of Coho Salmon  Feb 11, 2008 Capital Press:  Supreme Court won't review (CA) coho decision  Feb 13, 2008
Oregonian Editorial:  A new test for Oregon 's salmon plan  Feb 9, 2008 Seattle Times:  Sea lions vs. salmon: Restore balance and common sense  Feb 15, 2008
Oregonian:  Doing more for what ails our coastal coho  Feb 15, 2008 Times-Standard:  Timber industry's coho case flops  Feb 15, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle Opinion:  What is behind the salmon decline?  Feb 19, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Sea Lion Comments In; Marine Mammal Commission Says More Info Needed  Feb 22, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Council Approves Funding For Non-lethal Sea Lion Hazing  Feb 22, 2008 Federal Register:  Fisheries off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Amendment 15 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan  Feb 25, 2008
CA Trout Press Release:  Conservation Groups File Lawsuit Over California 's Salmon Rules  Feb 25, 2008 Eureka Reporter:  Groups sue state over salmon protections  Feb 25, 2008
Oregonian:  Lawmakers push feds to better help salmon  Feb 27, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Nearly 100 Members of Congress Sign Salmon Plan Letter to NOAA  Feb 29, 2008
NOAA Press Release:  Unfavorable ocean conditions likely cause of low 2007 salmon returns along West Coast  Mar 3, 2008 AP:  Salmon woes linked to weather  Mar 4, 2008
Oregonian:  Sea conditions in 2005 tied to salmon falloff this year  Mar 4, 2008 Union of Grass Valley:  Poor ocean conditions blamed for salmon decline  Mar 4, 2008
Eureka Reporter:  Scientists say conditions to blame for low salmon  Mar 5, 2008 AlterNet:  Water: What It Will Take to Save Wild Salmon  Mar 5, 2008
Coos Bay World Link:  Ocean blamed for salmon decline  Mar 4, 2008 Dan Bacher:  Fisheries Agency Blames Ocean Conditions for Salmon Decline  Mar 4, 2008
Crescent City Triplicate:  Unusual weather hurting fish  Mar 5, 2008 Times-Standard:  Year of no salmon?  Mar 6, 2008
Chico News & Review Editorial:  Why the salmon are dying  Mar 6, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Editorial:  Seen any salmon?  Mar 7, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Research Linking Sea Temperature Swings to Salmon Return Numbers  Mar 7, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  NOAA Scientists Studying Impacts of Anomaly in California Current in 2005  Mar 7, 2008
Modesto Bee:  What's happening in the ocean affects salmon the most  Mar 9, 2008 Mount Shasta Herald:  Lawsuit filed over new DFG coho salmon regulations  Mar 12, 2008
Statesman Journal Opinion:  Listing paves way for restoration of coho salmon  Mar 12, 2008 Herald and News:  Roger Smith: Reintroducing fish  Mar 14, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  States Get Set For Sea Lion Trapping; Zoos, Aquariums Show Interest  Mar 14, 2008 Modesto Bee:  Will wild salmon go the way of the buffalo?  Mar 14, 2008
AP:  Agency OKs the killing of sea lions at Bonneville Dam  Mar 18, 2008 AP:  Sea lions at Ore. dam sentenced to death  Mar 18, 2008
Salem Statesman Journal:  Driving the salmon to extinction  Mar 18, 2008 San Jose Mercury News:  Editorial: Don't let salmon go the way of the California grizzly  Mar 18, 2008
Vancouver Columbian:  State-of-the Art Machines Tag Hatchery Salmon  Mar 18, 2008 Northwest Fishletter :  Some Sea Lions May Die Over ESA-Salmon Diet  Mar 20, 2008
Dan Bacher:  Broad Coalition Proposes Solutions to the Salmon Crisis  Mar 20, 2008 Northwest Fishletter :  NW Salmon Runs Dodge A Bullet  Mar 20, 2008
Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife Press Release:  Fish and Wildlife Commission hears about salmon and sea lions  Mar 21, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin Low West Coast Salmon Returns; Why The Variations?  Mar 21, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Feds Approve Plan To Remove Up To 85 Sea Lions In Columbia River   Mar 21, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Tribes, Council Laud Sea Lion Decision; Humane Society Mulls Options  Mar 21, 2008
The Columbian:  The Sea Lion Dilemma: Feast or Salmon?  March 23, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle:  Salmon numbers fall, but possible explanations grow  Mar 23, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial:  What Will It Take To Save The Salmon?  Mar 23, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle:  Scientists try to explain dismal salmon run  Mar 24, 2008
Federal Register:  Marine Mammals; Pinniped Removal Authority; Partial Approval of Application  Mar 24, 2008 The Columbian:  Lawsuit seeks to save sea lions  Mar 25, 2008
Bend Bulletin:  A heavy snowpack's trickle-down theory - Lots of snow is good news for irrigators, area fish  Mar 26, 2008 AP:  Oregon scientist says salmon seeing better ocean conditions   Mar 28, 2008
AP:  Humane Society asks injunction against killing Columbia sea lions  Mar 29, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Litigation Stalls Sea Lion Kills; Non-lethal Removal Allowed  April 4, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Briefings Complete in Ninth Circuit Wild vs. Hatchery Listing Cases  April 4, 2008 Corvallis Gazette Times:  Salmon decline impacts research  April 5, 2008
IndyBay:  Peter Moyle's Commentary on Central Valley Chinook Salmon Decline  April 6, 2008 Times-Standard Opinion:  Klamath pact is key to recovering salmon  April 8, 2008
Times-Standard Letter:  Salmon run thing of past?  April 9, 2008 The News Tribune Opinion:  Dam breaching or not, fish recovery will be pricey  April 9, 2008
Seattle Times:  Commentary: Working in Unison for Salmon Recovery  April 9, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle:  The tribes on the Klamath know that as the river goes, so go the salmon  April 11, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  PFMC Recommends West Coast's Most Restrictive Ocean Fishing In History  April 11, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Ocean Conditions:  Do Columbia And Alaska Chinook Go To The Same Place?  April 11, 2008
Northwest Fishletter :  Humane Society Tries To Kill Fed's Bonneville Sea Lion Decision  April 11, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Pinniped Predation Report:  Hazing Not Reducing Sea Lions' Salmon Catch  April 11, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Sea Lion Removals Postponed To Await Looming Court Decisions  April 11, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Researchers Hope To Continue ' River Of Origin ' Salmon Study  April 11, 2008
ODF&W Press Release:  ODFW announces limited ocean coho salmon season  April 11, 2008 Oregon State University :  Oregon State Research to Protect Salmon in Jeopardy  April 12, 2008
Times-Standard Guest Opinion:  What it will take to restore salmon  April 12, 2008 Modesto Bee Opinion:  Federal agency oblivious to the decline of salmon  April 13, 2008
The Olympian Opinion:  Salmon or Sea Lions for Humane Society?  April 15, 2008 Newsweek:  A Salmon Shortage - Oregon 's salmon-fishing industry seemed poised to recover - until now  April 16, 2008
Pioneer Press Letter:  The billions spent on salmon - who's in charge?  April 16, 2008 Oregonian:  Judge OKs Killing Sea Lions  April 17, 2008
Oregonian:  Judge OKs Killing Sea Lions  April 17, 2008 LA Times Commentary:  Where are the salmon? - Looking at long-term trends, the ocean, and climate change for clues  April 17, 2008
Herald and News:  Jack Elbert:  Salmon unlikely to return to the Basin  April 18, 2008 Crescent City Triplicate:  Chinook salmon quota on the Klamath  April 17, 2008
Times-Standard:  Good weather results in good fishing on Trinity  April 17, 2008 Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife Press Release:  ODFW to Study Reintroduction of Salmon into Upper Klamath Basin   April 17, 2008
Columbia Basin Bulletin:  Harm to Salmon Justifies Columbia River Sea Lion Removal  April 18, 2008 Columbia Basin Bulletin: