Environmental groups and commercial fishermen filed suit this week against
the National Marine Fisheries Service saying the agencys biological opinion
of a controversial project to deepen the Columbia River shipping channel
lacked scientific foundation and will harm young salmon traveling through
the rivers estuary.
Describing a process that had more to do with meeting the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers schedule to send its dredging report to Congress than
with meeting NMFS biological …
