51.   The fisheries service said any delay would increase the likelihood that some stocks of Snake River salmon would become extinct.

52.   The immigration service said it would not renew its contract for Esmor to run the center.

53.   The immigration service would not say who arrived in which boats, and since last weekend the agency has not granted journalists access to the detained Cubans.

54.   The Internal Revenue Service ruled the reorganization will be a tax-free transaction for shareholders, the provider of business information services said.

55.   The immigration service says it has drawn up its proposal regarding genital mutilation on its own, without consulting the State Department.

56.   The fisheries service says that the rescue agencies are not to blame for the high mortality rate.

57.   The intelligence service said it believed that the militant groups use Canada for fund raising, safe haven, and recruiting Canadian citizens in ethnic communities.

58.   The immigration service said it did not yet know how many people would be affected by the policy change.

59.   The immigration service said it would decide whether to expand the training to more officers after polling the participants of the pilot course.

60.   The immigration service said that an investigation of the two sites had not been pursued.