11.   The locals grumble that rich foreigners are depleting their salmon stock, aided and abetted by greedy high-level Russian officials.

12.   The government was concerned that diverting more water from the Nechako River, which is used to run the existing power plant, would harm salmon stocks.

13.   There is still a sport fishery despite the precipitous decline in salmon stocks.

14.   Thursday, British Columbia Premier Glen Clark said he may call all Canadian Pacific salmon trawlers into action to retaliate by targeting American salmon stocks.

15.   While the population plunge has depressed Canadian and European salmon stocks, it has put wild American salmon in critical condition.

16.   Anne McMullin, British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association spokeswoman, said the Fisheries report indicates salmon stocks are not being threatened by sea lice.

17.   Canada needs a strong federal law to protect endangered grizzly bears, Vancouver Island marmots and Pacific salmon stocks, he said.

18.   Canada asked the U.S. government Friday to increase pressure on Alaska to conserve salmon stocks on the Pacific coast.

19.   But, like U.S. officials, he said the paramount concern was reaching an agreement on fishing practices that would conserve salmon stocks in the Pacific northwest.

20.   Elsewhere, his department will consider selective fishing for salmon stocks if it can be shown the danger to coho will be minimal.