Just a sidelight. Last week in the Tacoma paper, there was a story that - I believe it was a fish biologist - was out running in Puyallup and found a dead sturgeon under a bridge or next to a road overpass that goes across that drainage ditch that drains out of the parking lot next to the fairgrounds on the roller coaster side. I believe that ditch drains into Clark's Creek, which drains into the Puyallup. If it was in that ditch, I can see why it died - it's notoriously polluted. The story included a comment that sturgeon populations were growing and that even though biologists don't believe the fish spawn elsewhere than in the Columbia and one other river in the state, they are being found to be expanding their ranging territory. (I believe this was being said in relation to white sturgeon). I have heard rumors that sturgeon have been caught in test fisheries in the Puyallup.
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Tad