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 Stories About: fishing AND National Marine Fisheries Service AND Oregon
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Flipper Them Off
State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon |
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18 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ... |
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| Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Here Today, Oregon Tomorrow
Feds say local recovery plan is enough to save Oregon's coastal coho |
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18 Jan 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Here Today, Oregon Tomorrow Feds say local recovery plan is enough to save Oregon's coastal coho Oregon coastal coho salmon will not be returned to the federal threatened species list. The National Marine Fisheries Service says there's no need for federal protections, crediting improving fish numbers to the recovery plan developed by a coalition of local, state, and federal players, including the t ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon (all these topics) |
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Whistle While You Work
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29 Oct 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Whistle While You Work In a new twist to the Klamath River controversy, Michael Kelly, a biologist with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, is blowing the whistle on the Bush administration for drafting and approving a water plan that he says provides inadequate protections for endangered salmon. The accusations come after the U.S. Bureau of Rec ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics) |
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The After-kla-math
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04 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| The After-kla-math The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has determined that there was "no sound scientific basis" for the federal government's decision to deny irrigation water to more than 1,000 farms in Oregon's Klamath Basin during last summer's drought. A panel of 12 independent scientists, convened at ... |
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| Topics: climate, Department of Interior, fishing, food and agriculture, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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Basin and Strange
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29 Jan 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ... |
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| Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics) |
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Court Ruling Puts All Salmon Protections at Risk
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14 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Court Ruling Puts All Salmon Protections at Risk In a decision that could undermine protections for salmon throughout the West, U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan on Wednesday ordered that Oregon coastal coho salmon no longer be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Hogan said federal biologists were wrong to count only wild fish and not the more numerous hatchery-born coho when it decided ... |
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| Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon (all these topics) |
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