Dam Traps, Kills 10 Prized Sturgeon
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By Associated Press  RED BLUFF -- Wildlife officials discovered the bloody, battered bodies of 10 prized green sturgeon near a diversion dam that likely trapped the large bottom-feeding fish.
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The states of New Mexico and Colorado, four tribes and the Interior Department have extended a program to recover endangered fish in the San Juan River.
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A federal agency recommended killing about 30 sea lions a year at a Columbia River dam where the marine animals feast on salmon migrating upriver to spawn
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The American eel doesn't need protection as an endangered species, according to a two-year review prompted by a petition from a janitor who had noticed eels getting stuck at dams near his favorite fishing spots.
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Fishing Capt. Bucky Dennis has been trying to catch a record hammerhead shark for 10 years. He may have finally succeeded.
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It is one of the creepier creatures on Earth &#151; a squirming, snakelike fish bound for no real glory beyond its role in sushi or as bait dangling from a fisherman's hook. But it is largely for that reason &#151; not despite it &#151; that Tim Watts is taking a stand to protect the American eel, a species he says is in dangerous decline.
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By ALLEN THOMAS  CATHLAMET - A Columbia River commercial fisherman has been sentenced to 160 hours of community service, fined almost $2,400 and lost his vessel and nets after pleading guilty to having six endangered wild spring chinook salmon and one oversize sturgeon.
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct 3 (IPS) - A novel solution has been proposed to block the  building of a controversial dam that sits over a fissure and that  environmentalists say will harm plant and animal life.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--For a pip-squeak of a fish, Delta smelt are becoming a whale of a threat to California's water supply.
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At least 10 people died and thousands were sickened after chemical waste pumped from a tanker was dumped across the capital city in August.
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VAN DYNE, Wis. _ Dennis "Buzz" Heenan was all smiles as he stood in the ice and snow outside at the sturgeon registration station here Saturday.  He had reason to be.
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A fish known for its voracious appetite and ability to wreak havoc on freshwater ecosystems was found in Chicago's Burnham Harbor, alarming state biologists.
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By Art Lander Jr., The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 14--Kentucky wildlife officials are worried that the warming waters in parts of the Cumberland River will trigger a major fish kill in one of the finest trout-fishing areas in the eastern United States.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 8--HAGERMAN -- Eighty-thousand fish stories are waiting to be told after Idaho Power Co. this week stocked southern Idaho reservoirs with thousands of 10-inch trout.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 24--Minnesota fisheries officials have a sturgeon mystery on their hands.   Several lake sturgeon have turned up dead in the St.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--Water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are expected to increase significantly today, despite additional smelt killed this week and a lingering risk to the threatened fish.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.