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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by DaveBr Gentlemen,You have your Montana farmers trying to survive with the railroads.Have any one heard the full scoop on the Oregon farmers and the water they will be able to get? I understand it's going to be a fight between the Salmon coming upstream and the farmers trying to irrigate their land? At Klamath Falls DaveBr. [/quote] In the case of the Klamath farmers, they are fighting government entities, including but not limited to the EPA, USF&W, NOAA, and most importantly, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The creation of the new 12th Circuit Court of Appeals can't come soon enough for them! Isn't it ironic that farmers, dams, ect take all the blaim for ostensibly low salmon returns, yet the feds continue to allow tribal and commercial fishermen to stretch their hundreds of gill nets across all the salmon bearing streams and rivers? Last time anyone looked, a gill net doens't discriminate between a *protected* wild salmon and a harvestable hatchery fish. There was a federal judge who rightly ruled that there is no difference between hatchery and wild fish, and if push comes to shove I expect the Bush Administration will use that combined count to delist most of these fish.
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