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- From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
- Subject: Re: PRES DEBATE
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.192752.12214@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 19:27:52 GMT
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- In article <Bxqnqu.Gws@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> kiran@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
- >Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >
- >>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_)
- >
- >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.
-
- As someone else pointed out, the problem is more in getting
- down the river, and studies are underway to see if releasing
- more water will make it easier for the fish to survive (by
- studies I mean they released more water than usual last year
- and will continue doing so, while monitoring the fish population
- as they always do). If it works, then I would think this is the
- sort of in-between solution that Graydon advocates.
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- Dave Johnson
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- "You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
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