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Klamath Tribes encouraged by fisheries report
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Klamath Tribes chairman Allen Foreman on Wednesday said he was encouraged after an initial review of a new report on the water-fish war in the Klamath Basin.
Foreman said the National Research Council report "clearly acknowledges the need for large-scale ecosystem and fish habitat restoration in the Klamath Basin, and that is promising.
It also emphasizes that additional withdrawals of water from Upper Klamath Lake cannot be reconciled with the needs of fisheries."
Foreman said the tribes, based in Oregon, are still reviewing the lengthy document,
released on Tuesday. "Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Causes of Decline and Strategies for Recovery" calls for long-term restoration efforts to protect endangered and threatened fish in the basin. It blames low runs not on non-Indian farmers who draw water from the basin but on the ecosystem.
The report also lets the Department of Interior off the hook for a massive fishkill that occurred las summer in the lower half of the basin. The Yurok Tribe blames the Bush administration's water policies on the deaths of more than 33,000 salmon.
According to The Eureka Times-Standard, the conclusion contradicts a draft report
from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. The paper said the draft blames low water flows for the fishkill.
Get the Story:
Study recommends massive effort to restore Klamath
(The Eureka Times-Standard 10/22)
Scientists offer Klamath remedies
(The Oregonian 10/22)
Get the Report:
Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Causes of Decline and Strategies for Recovery (October 21, 2003)
Relevant Links:
Resource Allocation in the Klamath Basin: An Assessment of
Natural Resource, Economic, Social, and Institutional Issues -
http://eesc.orst.edu/klamath
Klamath Tribes -
http://www.klamathtribes.orgKlamath
Basin in Crisis -
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org
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