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Science 4 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5480, pp. 716 - 719
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5480.716
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ECOLOGY:
Can Science Rescue Salmon?

Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer

PORTLAND, OREGON--At a press conference on 27 July, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released a long-awaited plan to save the Columbia River's endangered salmon by restoring fish habitat, overhauling hatcheries, limiting harvest, and improving river flow. What the plan did not do, however, was call for immediate breaching of four dams on the Snake River, the Columbia's major tributary--an option that has been the subject of a nationwide environmental crusade. The NMFS will hold that option in abeyance while it sees whether the less drastic measures will do the trick. Responses from both sides were immediate and outraged.

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