1.   And Clark made himself a pariah by taking a confrontational stance on U.S.-Canada salmon treaty negotiations.

2.   And who among them believes county officials would take seriously the duty to manage the reach to help fulfill international or tribal salmon treaties?

3.   But the Canadian government has been urging him to back down and let high-level talks between American and Canadian diplomats work toward a renewed salmon treaty.

4.   Canadian and Alaskan officials discussed ways on Monday to take action without a new salmon treaty.

5.   Clark was bypassed by U.S. and Canadian government officials, and by Northwest governors, in the recent negotiation of a new long-term U.S.-Canada salmon treaty.

6.   Earlier this year, the two countries broke off negotiations over a salmon treaty.

7.   If the U.S. and Canada cannot agree on a salmon treaty, Clark said yesterday, the two countries should submit the long-running dispute to binding arbitration.

8.   Negotiators for the two countries have met twice officially in recent weeks to hammer out new parts of the salmon treaty.

9.   Talks at renewing the salmon treaty broke down earlier this year.

10.   The federal government in Ottawa responded by cutting him out of negotiations on a salmon treaty, which was finished in early June.