1.   Another would involve the status of salmon stocks in several different parts of the Columbia and Snake rivers.

2.   A lot of very sensitive salmon stocks are already very, very low.

3.   In a letter and accompanying memo, the two state officials said the negotiations should incorporate a long-range plan for rebuilding depleted salmon stocks up and down the coast.

4.   It is unlikely that the depletion of salmon stocks is entirely an issue of commercial and sporting exploitation.

5.   On the West Coast, officials have known for years that salmon stocks were in precarious shape.

6.   Similar cuts are planned for other salmon stocks.

7.   Some salmon stocks, especially chinook, are already low.

8.   The Canadian government sent a formal protest letter to Washington over what it said is U.S. overfishing of Canadian Pacific Coast salmon stocks, officials said.

9.   The cuts in the coho and chinook harvest are likely to ease the pressure on salmon stocks returning to rivers in the United States.

10.   The harvest of Pacific salmon stocks has long been a contentious issue between the two neighbors.