Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Big chinook run doesn't let Columbia dams off the hook, activists say

Salmon counters at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River are seeing the biggest chinook run since 1938, but environmentalists still worry.



BONNEVILLE DAM, Wash. — The tiny fish-counting station, with its window onto the Columbia River, was darkened so the migrating salmon would not be spooked. And it was silent — until the shimmering bodies began to flicker by.



via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/T_ROO94GY2I/la-na-chinook-salmon-20130925,0,4305790.story

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