The Northwest Power Planning Council voted Wednesday to withhold $642,000
in funding for a study on Caspian tern predation until a plan is produced
that considers “all necessary measures to reduce the size of the tern population
in the estuary.”
The Council crafted a letter to National Marine Fisheries Service regional
administrator Will Stelle asking for aggressive action.
“Specifically, we urge that the management goal for (fiscal year) 2000
should be to reduce tern predation levels …
