This says it all:

De-listing thwarted... look who\'s fuming!

It's obvious after reading this article that de-listing of salmon/steelhead runs was the prime objective of the resource extractors. To suggest there was anything else driving the NOAA-F plan is plain denial. It was industry that led the crusade to get Oregon coho de-listed by counting hatchery fish in 2001, and they just figured it would be a slam dunk after that precedent setting decision.

Glad to see NOAA-F will be upholding its commitment to habitat protections and self-sustaining wild fish populations.

Thanks to all who contributed in the effort to keep NOAA-F on the straight and narrow. This is proof that we can make a difference!
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey)

"If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman)


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