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color:gray'>April 10, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Jane
Lubchenco, the new leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, will have more to say than anyone else in Washington about the
health of fish species in America’s coastal waters. A career marine
ecologist, she is widely regarded as tough, smart, respectful of science and
deeply committed to the survival and growth of America’s fisheries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a name=secondParagraph></a>She will need all of those qualities and more when
she confronts what could be her first major test — possibly the most
vexing of her tenure — devising a workable and broadly acceptable
solution to the grave threats facing the salmon runs of the Pacific Northwest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>In
a matter of weeks, a federal judge in Seattle will rule on the adequacy of the
Bush administration’s last recovery plan for a dozen or so endangered or
threatened salmon runs in the Columbia-Snake River Basin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Judge
James Redden has already rejected two earlier plans. He tossed out a Clinton
plan because he found its prescriptions too vague and predictions about the
recovery rate for salmon species too speculative. He then tossed out a Bush
plan because it did too little to increase water flows over the dams to help
move young salmon downstream to the ocean. It was also illegal: The Endangered
Species Act requires the recovery of a species, whereas the Bush plan promised
little more than allowing the fish to go extinct at a slower rate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>This
latest plan is an improvement, but it asks only that the fish be
“trending toward recovery” — which could mean almost
anything, and certainly does not point toward full recovery. It is opposed by
environmental groups and the state of Oregon, from which Dr. Lubchenco hails.
It also is unlikely to pass muster with the judge. That would set the stage for
intervention by the Obama administration and, one hopes, a much better recovery
plan. As part of that plan, we urge the administration to consider removing the
four dams on the Lower Snake River, which many scientists see as critical to
the species’ recovery. The Clinton plan held open that possibility; the
Bush plan did not. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:18.0pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Encouragingly,
Dr. Lubchenco has already shown a capacity to confront tough problems. Last
week, she asked the hidebound and suspicious fishermen of New England to
entertain a radical shift in the way they manage their fisheries. Instead of
the current race to catch the last fish, Dr. Lubchenco is calling on them
instead to submit to an ownership system known as “catch shares”
under which they would be given a fixed share of the fishery and, with it, a
strong financial interest in having the fishery survive and grow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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idea has worked well in several countries, like Australia. It also captured the
attention of Congress and the Bush administration. Getting New England’s
traditionalists to accept a new idea will not be easy, but it is necessary. New
England’s fisheries suffer from overfishing, the Pacific
Northwest’s from habitat loss. What both places suffer from is a failure
to act. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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