Calif. tribes consider fishkill suit

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002

The Yurok Tribe and the Hoopa Valley Tribe of California are meeting next week to consider a suit against the federal government for the deaths of 20,000 salmon in the Klamath River.

The tribes have treaty rights to water. A Clinton administration plan is supposed to restore flows but Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has restricted water due to a conflict upstream involving non-Indian farmers.

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