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2008-06-19 18:06:56
As most of you are probably aware, Snake River fall chinook is the stock that pulled Alaska under the Endangered Species Act. In the early days of ESA management (the 90s), trollers lost over 30K fish a year to pass to the gravel a handful of spawners - one year it was estimated at 3/4 of a fish! Their traditional habitat is gone - blocked by 4 dams - and Lyons Ferry hatchery fish are used to predict its abundance.
Dale, ATA
This coming Sunday evening, June 22, CBS News 60 MINUTES will feature an expose on the severely depressed salmon populations in the Columbia & Snake Rivers. The story will spotlight the tremendous amount of taxpayer dollars our federal government continues to spend on ineffective programs that are failing to restore an endangered national treasure - wild salmon of the Columbia and Snake Rivers.
The story will raise serious questions about the billions of taxpayer dollars the government has spent - and wants to keep spending into the future - on salmon programs that aren't working, and scientists tell us are extremely unlikely ever to work.
Please tune in, as this story shines a bright light to a national audience on the federal government's taxpayer-financed failure to protect and restore wild salmon and steelhead to the rivers of America's Pacific Northwest.
CBS NEWS - 60 MINUTES
SUNDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 2008
CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR TIME.