Dire fish circumstance prompted the Northwest Power Planning Council
Wednesday to deviate from its standard operating procedures and recommend
funding for a controversial Imnaha River steelhead fish supplementation
effort.

The council followed a recommendation made Tuesday by its Fish and Wildlife
Committee to allow a $115,000 in Bonneville Power Administration funding
for fiscal year 1998 to be shifted from one Northeast Oregon fish rearing
project to another. If BPA goes along …