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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111;
font-weight:bold'>SalmonAid Festival Puts Spotlight on Need For Fish
Restoration</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Photo: Murkie
Oliver, Yurok Tribal Elder, cooks salmon over an open fire the traditional way
in the kick off event to the SalmonAid Festival. Photo by Dan Bacher.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>SalmonAid
Festival Puts Spotlight on Urgent Need For Fish Restoration</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Dan Bacher</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>A
unique coalition of recreational anglers, commercial fisherman, members of
Indian Tribes and conservationists came together from throughout <st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State> and the West Coast to sponsor the SalmonAid
Festival on May 31 and June 1 in <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Jack
London Square</st1:address></st1:Street> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:City>.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>The
event aimed to draw attention to the ongoing salmon fisheries disaster on the
Klamath, <st1:City w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Columbia</st1:place></st1:City> and other West Coast rivers. This
year, due to record low numbers of salmon expected to return to the Central
Valley Rivers because of increases in California Delta water exports and other
factors, all commercial and recreational ocean fishing is banned off the <st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State> and most of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>The
event was the brainchild of Mike Hudson, a commercial salmon fisherman and
president of the Small Boat Commercial Fishermens Association. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hudson</st1:place></st1:City> wanted to use the event as a venue to
highlight the economic, cultural, and culinary value of salmon and to bring diverse
groups together to work for their restoration.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>This
really all came together, didnt it? said a very happy <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hudson</st1:place></st1:City> as we watched Les Claypool, Bay Area
alternative rock royalty and Primus front-man, start playing before the largest
crowd gathered before any act in the square on Saturday.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>The
festival, advertised as a family-style event, drew over 20,000 people during
the two days. Big Rick Stuart, KFOG disk jockey, emceed SalmonAid.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>It
was a total smashing success, observed Hudson, a blues musician who performs
with Mike and the Sea Kings. It was a giant first step in educating people
about the need to save our salmon and other fisheries. With all of the
favorable press we received in newspapers, TV and radio outlets, I feel that we
won our first battle in a long drawn out war to restore our salmon and our
rivers.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Claypool,
whose thumping bass lines and unique worldview have become the calling cards
for a number of wildly successful and influential albums in the last two
decades, high lined a diverse roster of twenty bands on two live outdoor stages
at the event.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>"The
Pacific salmon is an icon and inspiration for a lot of us on the West Coast and
it's one of my favorite foods," said Claypool, who regularly sport fishes
for salmon off the northern <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>
coast. "But today we're in danger of losing this incredible fish. The
bands at SalmonAid played to help ensure that wild Pacific salmon will always
be around and to help protect the rivers where salmon live."</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Members
of three Klamath River Indian Tribes - the Yurok, Karuk and <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Hoopa</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType>
- hosted a traditional salmon bake for the public at <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Ocean</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Beach</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">San Francisco</st1:place></st1:City> the night before to show
support for the festival. Murkie Oliver, Yurok Tribal Elder, and Earl Aubrey,
Karuk Tribal Elder, carefully cooked the big strips of freshly caught <st1:place
w:st="on">Klamath River</st1:place> spring chinook salmon on redwood sticks
next to an open fire.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Ken
Brink, Rabbit Brink, J.J Reed, Tuffy Tims, and David Goodwin of the Karuk Tribe
helped with the cooking. The salmon was delicious, with everybody going back
for seconds and thirds. Salmon cooked in the traditional manner like they did
is the absolute best way to prepare it. Rabbit and Ken Brink also perfumed
traditional songs with drum accompaniment after the bake.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>"The
time has come for real solutions like curtailing pumping freshwater from the
Bay-Delta and the removal of Warren Buffett's lower four Klamath River
dams," said Ron Reed, Karuk cultural biologist and traditional dip net
fisherman, drawing the close connection between fishery failures on the Klamath
and Sacramento.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Musical
acts featured at the event included the Zydeco Flames, Stacy Kray, Sizemo, Saul
Kaye, Captain Zohar, Tia Carroll, Manaleo, Captain Mike and The Sea Kings,
Asheba, John Craigie, The Bobby Young Project, Eliyahu and Qadim.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Congressman
Barbara Lee (CA-9) showed her support for the event by issuing a statement that
included the following:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>"The
economic stability of our local fishing industry affects the financial health
of our entire community, and the environmental conditions fish and wildlife
face certainly affect the human population directly. We cannnot separate public
health, economic health, and environmental health. To take care of one, we must
take care of them all. SalmonAid 2008 shines as a much needed light on this
important and urgent issue."</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 color="#111111"
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>The
Coastside Fishing Club, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermens Associations,
Institute for Fishery Resources, American Fishing Association, Water for Fish,
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Trout Unlimited, Alameda Creek
Alliance, Klamath Riverkeeper, SPAWN, Save Our Wild Salmon, Friends of Butte
Creek and other fishery conservation and environmental organizations set up
tables and displays. A dedicated crew of anglers, including Gary Adams of the
California Striped Bass Association, Bob Mellinger of Cloverdale, John Webb of <st1:City
w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City> and George Sacsa of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Berkeley</st1:place></st1:City>, gathered thousands of signatures
for water4fish during the event.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>The
festival also featured educational forums, children's activities, speakers and
a chance for the public to enjoy wild king salmon served by some of the West
Coast's finest restaurants.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>Restaurants
including Fish. in <st1:City w:st="on">Sausalito</st1:City>, The Basin in <st1:City
w:st="on">Saratoga</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State>, Flea Street
Cafe in <st1:City w:st="on">Menlo Park</st1:City>, and Local Ocean Seafoods in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Newport</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">OR</st1:State></st1:place>,
banded together for the event. Alaskan commercial fishermen donated the wild
salmon served at the festival.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#111111'>For more information
about this or next years event, call Mike Hudson, Organizer of Salmon Aid,
(510) 407-2000, or go to </span></font><a href="http://www.salmonaid.org/"><font
color="#17345c" face=Verdana><span style='font-family:Verdana;color:#17345C'>http://www.salmonaid.org</span></font></a><span
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