04. WILDLIFE - Columbia Basin Bulletin - Page 214

3. ISSUE PAPERS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

Federal, state and tribal representatives raised issues this week with
the federal "implementation plan" released by the federal action
agencies in mid-November.

The plan describes the specific measures the agencies will implement
between Oct. 1, 2001, and Sept. 30, 2002, to comply with the National
Marine Fisheries Service' 2000 biological opinion.

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1. GAO: ROAD FISH PASSAGE TO TAKE $375 MILLION, DECADES

September 10, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

Federal agencies estimate that efforts to restore fish passage through a
maze of some 122,000 miles of roads on federal lands in Oregon and
Washington "may ultimately cost over $375 million and take decades,"
according to a General Accounting Office report issued Monday.

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3. CORPS SOON TO RELEASE CHANNEL DEEPENING ASSESSMENT

September 10, 2003/in 02. RIVER, 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it expects to release in
mid-December an assessment of the biological effects that deepening the
Columbia River shipping channel by three feet from Portland to Astoria
may have on 13 listed species of salmon, steelhead and trout.

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1. NMFS DECISION ON HOGAN SPARKS MIXED REACTIONS

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

A federal decision to revisit Endangered Species Act listing decisions
for 23 of 25 West Coast salmon and steelhead stocks has provoked a
variety of opinions about the future of the region's fish recovery
efforts.

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3. TRIBES SEE SUPPLEMENTATION BOOST WITH HATCHERY REVIEW

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

Four Northwest tribes with treaty fishing rights will be at the "heart"
of plans to re-evaluate the hatchery policies of the National Marine
Fisheries Service following a September federal court ruling, said
Donald Sampson, executive director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission.

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4. CBB INTERVIEW: LARRY CASSIDY ON REGIONAL RECOVERY

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER

In a time that has lawsuits littering the salmon recovery landscape and
pressure increasing on the Northwest Power Planning Council to satisfy a
variety of fish and wildlife funding demands, NWPPC chairman Larry
Cassidy still relishes the challenge.

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1. NMFS ANNOUNCES REVIEW OF ESA LISTINGS, HATCHERY POLICIES

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

Instead of appealing a federal court order that tossed out the Oregon
coastal coho Endangered Species Act listing, the National Marine
Fisheries Service has opted to use that decision as a springboard toward
the re-evaluation of as many as 23 other West Coast listings and its own
artificial production strategy.

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1. HOGAN REJECTS STAY ON COHO ESA DELISTING

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

U.S. District Circuit Judge Michael Hogan on Tuesday turned aside
arguments that federal protection for Oregon coastal coho and their
habitat be continued while the federal government rethinks the status of
the salmon's wild and hatchery produced populations.

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2. CONSERVATION GROUPS CALL DE-LISTING PETITIONS ‘FRIVOLOUS’

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

A shower of petitions asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to
drop numerous Pacific fish species from the federal endangered species
list has been followed by flurry of letters to the agency calling the
requests "spurious," "facially deficient" and "frivolous."

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2. CONSERVATION GROUPS CALL DE-LISTING PETITIONS ‘FRIVOLOUS’

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

A shower of petitions asking the National Marine Fisheries Service to
drop numerous Pacific fish species from the federal endangered species
list has been followed by flurry of letters to the agency calling the
requests "spurious," "facially deficient" and "frivolous."

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1. FEDERAL FISH MANAGERS BURIED IN DE-LISTING PETITIONS

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

No less than five administrative "de-listing" petitions -- targeting
fish stocks from the Puget Sound to northern California and Oregon's
Klamath Basin -- have landed on federal fish managers' desks in recent
week.

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5. FINAL INTERIOR BILL INCLUDES $14 MILLION FOR BASIN FISH

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

This week, Congress passed a final interior spending bill with $26
million toward removal of two dams in Olympic National Park and at least
$14 million for Columbia Basin fish habitat and salmon enhancement in
the Northwest.

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2. GROUPS TARGET APPEAL OF COASTAL COHO DELISTING

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

Seven environmental and fishing groups on Tuesday filed a series of
legal measures they hope will lead to an appeal of U.S. District Court
Judge Michael Hogan's Sept. 10 decision that has resulted in the
delisting of the Oregon coastal coho.

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4. COUNCIL CONSIDERS FREEZE ON NEW FISH PROJECT FUNDING

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

The Northwest Power Planning Council is pondering a "freeze" on funding
for new fish and wildlife projects until it can judge the full weight of
growing demands stemming from its newly instituted provincial review
process and from federal hydrosystem biological opinions.

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2. ESA LISTINGS LEFT ‘VULNERABLE’ TO LEGAL CHALLENGE

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

A recent U.S. District Court judgment that the federal government erred
in its listing of Oregon coho could open a can of legal worms across the
Columbia River basin and Pacific Coast, according to an assessment
provided by the Northwest Power Planning Council's legal staff.

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3. IRRIGATORS FILE PETITION TO DELIST SEVEN BASIN STOCKS

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE, 08. LAW

An administrative petition calling for the delisting of seven Columbia
Basin salmon and steelhead stocks is, perhaps, the first legal broadside
delivered in response to a recent federal court decision declaring
illegal the Oregon coast coho's listing under the Endangered Species
Act.

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1. KITZHABER URGES APPEAL OF COHO DELISTING DECISION

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE

A recent U.S. District Court decision ordering a reconsideration of an
Oregon coastal coho Endangered Species Act listing could have
implications beyond the fish world -- affecting the health of Columbia
Basin communities and their economies, according to Oregon Gov. John
Kitzhaber.

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2. STATE COHO PROTECTIONS REMAIN IN PLACE

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced last Friday that
all Oregon fishing rules adopted for 2001 remain in effect and no
changes will be made as a result of last week's court decision on coho
managed under the federal Endangered Species Act.

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3. SENATE GIVES SALMON RECOVERY FUNDING A BOOST

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

The Senate has approved an additional $4 million for Pacific salmon
restoration projects in Washington state, raising total funding next
year to $74 million for four West Coast states.

The Pacific Salmon Fund is part of the $42 billion FY02 appropriation
bill for the Department of Commerce and other departments. The Senate
total is $26 million less than the House approved in July but $18
million above the current fiscal year.

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4. UPRIVER FALL CHINOOK FORECAST BOOSTED AGAIN

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER

Boosted by a huge "tule" return, the 2001Columbia River upriver fall
chinook run has tracked at a record pace, with more adults passing
Bonneville Dam this year than in any year since the project was built in
1938.

The threatened Snake River portion of the upriver run is also producing
some surprising numbers.

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2. COLUMBIA RIVER RUNS APPROACH 63-YEAR-OLD RECORD

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE

Counts of fall chinook, coho, and summer steelhead crossing Bonneville
Dam broke records this week, prompting biologists to predict that this
year's total adult fish return from the ocean to the Columbia River will
be the highest since at least 1938.

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3. COMPACT OKS TRIBAL, NON-INDIAN COMMERCIAL FISHERIES

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE

The Columbia River Compact on Thursday took a cautious approach towards
the goal of enabling non-Indian commercial harvest of 260,000 hatchery
coho in the lower river during September and October.

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4. HATCHERY BIRTHDAY WARRANTS MANY HAPPY RETURNS

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE

The year 2001 marks the 100-year milestone for the Spring Creek National
Fish Hatchery in Underwood, Wash., an event formally celebrated on Sept.
8., with educational activities, a formal ceremony and the viewing of
adult tule fall chinook salmon return that is next to none in recent
history.

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1. HOGARTH, LOHN TAPPED AS NMFS ADMINISTRATORS

September 9, 2003/in 03. HABITAT, 04. WILDLIFE, 07. POWER, 08. LAW

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Don Evans on Thursday announced the
appointment of Dr. William T. Hogarth to head the department's National
Marine Fisheries Service and Robert Lohn as chief of NMFS' Northwest
region.

Hogarth, a veteran with 16 years of experience in fisheries and natural
resources management, has since January been NMFS acting assistant
administrator.

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2. OVERALL ADULT SALMON RETURN APPROACHES RECORD

September 9, 2003/in 04. WILDLIFE

Adult salmon and steelhead counts during the spring and summer of 2001
continue to astound with fishery officials predicting the overall return
of salmonids to the Columbia Basin this year could set a new high since
record-keeping began in 1938.

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