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- From: daniel@clsi.COM (Daniel Barclay)
- Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
- In-Reply-To: kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu's message of Sun, 15 Nov 1992 03:44:53 GMT
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 10:23:01
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- > >Oh, whups - why on earth assume that the only way to get salmon back
- > >in the Pacific north west is to tear down the Hydro dams?
-
- > Because 40 years of environmental research says so? (read _Cadillac Desert_)
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- > Even in the rivers with fish ladders, the salmon population is dropping.
- > The reason that "the only way to get salmon back..." is because fish
- ^^^^
- > can't climb stairs, and they MUST get back to their home streams to
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > spawn. This became a big issue recently with an attempt to list some
- > types as endangered.
- > ...
- > Kiran Wagle <kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- The problem is young fish going _down_stream: They go through the generating
- turbines. The pressure changes kill a relative small percentage (5-10%) of
- fish per dam, but when (downstream-)migrating young fish go through several
- dams, a lot don't make it. (I saw it on PBS somewhere.)
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