1. Along with the Wetsuweten, the Gitsxan claimed what amounts to co-ownership with the province of a vast area of mountain range, salmon streams and timberland. 2. And Canadian fisheries officials have set fishing quotas based on anticipated runs in big salmon streams like the Fraser and Skeena rivers. 3. California and Oregon already have set up regional plans to protect salmon streams and are limiting hatchery production where it may harm wild fish runs. 4. Canadian fishermen look with envy at the stringent regulations imposed along salmon streams south of the border by the U.S. Forest Service. 5. Dairy farmers applauded the effort Thursday, even though runoff from their farms has been blamed for fouling salmon streams. 6. In fact, lawmakers came close to approving proposals that would loosen approval of new water rights that could dry up salmon streams. 7. In the Northwest, spy satellites have gauged the temperature of salmon streams. 8. Is it best to buy and permanently protect the forests, salmon streams and other habitat around the sound and in other parts of the spill zone? 9. It proposed banning logging and mining in roadless areas and in buffer zones near salmon streams. 10. Patrick Higgins, an Arcata fisheries biologist, said the creek used to be a prime salmon spawning stream but is now critically degraded. |