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- Alexandra Morton - Saving Wild Salmon, in Hopes of Saving the Orca
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Today, she hardly uses her hydrophone. There's no point, she says, "since my subject is so rare now." These days, when Ms. Morton noses her workboat away from her dock here, she is on a crusade, seeking not orcas, but evidence against the salmon farms she believes drove most of the killer whales away, in part by infecting the wild salmon the whales eat with parasites called sea lice. Her work is a challenge to the salmon farm industry and to the Canadian and British Columbia officials who regulate it.
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- Judges to decide if hatchery salmon should be part of EPA fish counts
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  A panel of federal appellate judges is being asked to decide whether the government should count hatchery-raised salmon and steelhead when considering the fish populations for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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- Orcas and Salmon say: A building ban near rivers?
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  In a potentially far-reaching decision for more than 270 municipalities, the National Marine Fisheries Service said the federal flood insurance program that protects homes and businesses built in flood plains is illegal. The reasoning: Flood insurance allows development that harms salmon and, consequently, the orcas that eat salmon. Both are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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- So much talk about so few fish
  Posted by Jeff from Crosscut
  The salmon fisheries of the Northwest have spawned a new industry of bureaucrats, lawyers, environmentalists, sport fishers, commercial interests, scientists, and natives, all focused on the absence of fish. Meanwhile, four sockeye returned last summer to a lake in Idaho once teeming with tens of thousands.
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- Orca recovery effort: more of the same
  Posted by Jeff from Crosscut
  A plan to save Puget Sound orcas calls for $50 million spent over 28 years but amounts to doing no more than we're already doing. Meanwhile, no one knows why the orca population is declining, and the only clear culprit is a lack of their favorite food: chinook salmon. A moratorium on chinook fishing may be the only solution.
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- Puget Sound orcas feeding in California -- again
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  In what a leading orca researcher calls an ominous sign, a group of the killer whales that frequent Puget Sound and nearby waters has turned up feeding off the coast of California for the sixth winter in a row. L pod, one of three orca families that frequent Washington waters, was spotted Sunday off Monterey Bay.
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- Local House panel will hold hearing into Cheney's role in Oregon salmon die-off
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  In light of allegations made about Cheney's role in developing a 10-year water plan for the Klamath River that courts later called arbitrary and in violation of the Endangered Species Act, a hearing is worthwhile, Rahall said. He and other Democrats charged that Cheney's action resulted in the largest adult salmon kill in the history of the West.
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Orca recovery effort: more of the same

Great picture and a worthwhile cause. Thanks.

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1:22 pm 2/16/08

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