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Online Stock Market Trading Faced with evidence of a massive die-off of salmon and the prospect of a lawsuit, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on Thursday ordered an emergency release of water from Upper Klamath Lake into the lower Klamath River.

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Stock Investing Course "What's happening on the lower river right now, we don't understand," bureau Commissioner John Keyes said late Thursday. "But we're trying to get an understanding to see if something needs to be done differently."

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Stock Market Game Keyes said 10,000 acre-feet of water will be released from the lake in coming days and allowed to flow downstream to the lower Klamath, where at least 12,000 salmon have died since last week.

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Stock Investing Game Commercial fishermen and environmentalists blamed the fish kill on the Bush administration's decision to divert water from the river to increase deliveries to farmers in the Klamath Basin. Joined by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), the coalition, led by the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Assns., filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oakland challenging the federal government's 10-year operating plan for the river.

Lewis said the scientific panel "found their work was generally impressive." The National Academy panelists noted that several recommended measures to help fish haven't been carried out. For instance, the Bureau of Reclamation that oversees water distribution still hasn't installed a screen to keep fish from being sucked into the main canal that delivers irrigation water to Klamath farmers. The screen was required by federal wildlife regulators in 1992.

Journal Prime Rate Street Wall The suit alleges that the Bureau of Reclamation's plan leaves insufficient flows for fish.

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Stock Market News The groups said the policy violates the Endangered Species Act because water reductions threaten the coho salmon that will soon enter the Klamath for their annual spawning run. Most of the dead fish were wild or hatchery-raised chinook salmon.

Stock Investing Basics Glen Spain of the Pacific Coast Federation said his group would not drop the lawsuit because of the emergency release.

Stock Investing Software "This suit is about water for the future," Spain said. "The whole 10-year plan is flawed, and we shouldn't have to get a release on an ad hoc basis each year. There should have been more water in the river to prevent a kill in the first place."

Stock Market Trading Keyes said the announcement of the release was not in response to the lawsuit.

Stock Investing For Dummy When the plan was unveiled in December, the bureau's parent agency, the U.S. Department of Interior, said it offered an innovative way to build consensus among farmers and fishermen while increasing future flows for salmon.

Stock Market Crash Keyes on Thursday reaffirmed the plan's validity, saying one of its strengths is that it can be amended when more information about the current fish kill is available. The National Academy of Sciences is to release a report in March on what flow rates are needed to ensure the survival of salmon.

Stock Investing Tip But many remain skeptical that the plan will ever solve the region's water wars.

Stock Market Chart "The administration wants to use what they are doing on the Klamath as a model for other water issues in the West; and if this is what they are planning to do, it's doomed to disaster," said Jonathan Birdsong, a legislative aide to Thompson.

Online Stock Investing The fish are believed to have been killed by gill rot, which salmon are vulnerable to when river water becomes too warm. None of the fish that died reached their upstream spawning grounds.

Stock Market Crash Of By Steve Hymon
Los Angeles Times - 9/27/2002

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