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<h1><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Fishing
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<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>SALMON DON'T need "the Katrina treatment.'' Yet that's
what the fish -- and the fleets that catch them -- are getting from neglectful
federal policymakers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>After a disastrous job overseeing fish stocks on the Klamath
River, <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State> has compounded the problem
by refusing aid to hard-hit commercial fisherman from <st1:State w:st="on">Oregon</st1:State>
to central <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>.
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:place></st1:City> has
stepped in with $35 million in funds, while federal officials have dodged and
quibbled on the topic. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The feds are fumbling away a problem that comes with
reasonable solutions. After 33,000 salmon died because of diverted Klamath
water in 2002, it was clear that returning schools would be approaching the
vanishing point. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Step one was taken in April: a severely limited fishing
season on all salmon catches off the coast. Because salmon from healthy rivers
swim with the depleted stocks of Klamath fish, it was necessary to restrict all
fish-catching along a 700-mile stretch of coastline. The number handed to
scores of small operators was 75 fish per week for a drastically shortened
season. This cut foretold bankruptcy for many boat operators who endured a
short season last year. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Step two should be financial aid to tide over a $100 million
per year industry. Suppliers, marina operators and other wharf businesses from <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Coos</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bay</st1:PlaceType> to <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">San Luis Obispo</st1:place></st1:City> will feel
the pain unless grants or low-cost loans are forthcoming. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Finally, it's clear that Washington, which controls water
diversions, logging practices and dam releases along the Klamath, needs to live
up to its responsibilities in preserving salmon from further losses. It can be
done. <st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place> salmon are thriving in
the watershed next door after their numbers took a scary drop. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bipartisan group of <st1:place
w:st="on">Northern California</st1:place> legislators are backing a $35 million
salmon bailout to the fishing industry. It's the right response. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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a key fish-monitoring agency, has promised to review the matter. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>The pressure could be building for a new direction that will
help salmon and the fishing industry that depends on their healthy numbers. It's
not too late to have both thriving again.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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