The National Marine Fisheries Service is taking another look at the
role of flow augmentation in Columbia River salmon recovery.
Recent scientific data on the relationship between river flow levels
and salmon survival were presented at the October 2 meeting of the Implementation
Team, a policy group representing federal and state agencies. NMFS hydro
manager Brian Brown said that at the team’s next meeting, November 5, he
would ask the group "whether we need to reconsider the …