1.   Burgess will team with federal fisheries officials and other biologists for a media briefing today at the National Press Club in Washington.

2.   Environmentalists and fishermen, meanwhile, are concerned that federal fisheries managers are even considering leaving the dams in place.

3.   Federal fishery experts say they now have evidence that putting large tracts of ocean off limits to fishing can help replenish dwindling stocks of fish.

4.   Federal fishery managers are demonstrating that they are serious about protecting dwindling red snapper and other species of fish in the Gulf of Mexico.

5.   In the coming months the Oregon forestry board will consider imposing more stringent timber practices that the federal fisheries service will recommend.

6.   Last Tuesday, the federal fisheries minister, Brian Tobin, said he planned to attend such a meeting and called on Canadians outside the province to join him.

7.   Ken Balcomb, the longest-serving observer of the orcas, said the decision shows that the federal fisheries agency will do little to save the creatures.

8.   Lohn said the federal fisheries agency will consider the stronger protection measures in four years.

9.   The letter also alleged that federal fisheries regulators have taken no effective action to protect sea turtles.

10.   The series has been credited with encouraging changes in federal fisheries law and tougher protection for the red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico.