Fish agency lets dams off hook
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Columbia River Basin dam operations don&#39;t jeopardize imperiled salmon and steelhead, according to a new biological opinion released Tuesday by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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By Michael Dinan, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Jun. 26--GREENWICH -- Michael Aurelia raised a dripping net of a baby alewives from a pool of the Mianus River Dam's fishway, examined them, then dumped the silver fish back into the water and pulled out a partially submerged crate.
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By ELAINE KEOGH  SIGNS in Russian and other eastern European languages are to be placed around lakes to stop fish stocks being wiped out.   The notices have been put up in a bid to stop non-nationals taking salmon and trout from waterways in Co Meath.
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Removing four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River to help struggling salmon runs there would not be as expensive as feared, studies for a state agency show.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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By The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 13--Commercial fishing for spring chinook salmon in the lower Columbia River is on hold for at least another week.
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The Bush administration on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of removing federal dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to protect 11 endangered species of salmon and steelhead, even as a last resort.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 10--An emergency lease to state agencies by the Pueblo Board of Water Works will keep minimum flows in the Arkansas River through Pueblo and avoid a repeat of conditions that threatened fish in the winter of 2005.
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RENO, Nev. - It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle them.  The saga began Nov.
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By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 25--DICKINSON, N.D. -- We hadn't even hit the water, and already, this was turning into a memorable fishing trip -- in the very best sense of the word.
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By Detroit Free Press  Sep. 11--Keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes seemed like a relatively straightforward request to make of the federal government. So it's deeply disappointing that on two fronts -- technical and financial -- the outlook is still dicey.
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GRANTS PASS -- A petition from environmentalists to put four species of lamprey -- jawless fish resembling eels that swim with salmon -- under protection of the Endangered Species Act has been rejected again by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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By Rachana Rathi, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Sep. 16--The state Department of Environmental Protection says it has a way to help local fishermen catch more large trout. The fishermen say no thanks.
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Environmentalists have complained for years that the Colorado River below a manmade dam was washing away natural sediment in the Grand Canyon, wiping away beaches and native fish and plants.
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Maryland's tidal fishery regulators lost a bid to have the state's controversial spring trophy rockfish season freed from special federal oversight yesterday. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission by a 7-6 vote rejected a proposal to end the system.
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By Sean Rose, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  May 27--A dam is in need of repair and there's less water for boating, but for Kentucky geologists, a 40-foot drop in the water level at Lake Cumberland is just fine.
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By Ron Clayton, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  May 30--RELIANCE, Tenn. -- Dry weather is causing cutbacks in water  release on the Hiwassee River, but TVA officials say they have no plans at  this time to change any water-release schedules on the Ocoee River.