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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Editorial
opinion pieces on Delta and water issues. Here are three inks and one
story copied in full.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INBM18I79J.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INBM18I79J.DTL</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INBM18I6SM.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INBM18I6SM.DTL</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INUL18HM0G.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INUL18HM0G.DTL</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INGV18GJGP.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INGV18GJGP.DTL</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Limit
agribusiness - for salmon's sake<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=byline1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Paul Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=date1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Sunday, July 5, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>When I look at a salmon, I don't just see a
silver fish, I see California.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Salmon fishing is part of our heritage, a way
of life that has been passed down for generations, deeply connected to the
community and tradition. The forests, streams and wildlife of California depend
on the return of the salmon for food and nutrients. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
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margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
display:none'><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/05/INSJ18CI9G.DTL"><span
style='color:#015660;text-decoration:none'>Newspaper helps make connections</span></a>
07.05.09<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Salmon is one of our last great wild foods, a
pillar of the healthy, sustainable and delicious cuisine that we all have come
to know and love in California. A fat, fresh piece of salmon pulled from the
sea, passed over the coals and into your mouth, will light your senses and let
you know that this is real food.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Wild salmon have been tied to the heritage,
culture and history of California since the first people crossed the land
bridge connecting Asia to the new world some 12,000 years ago. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Those first North Americans built a rich
culture and economy based on the annual return of salmon to their natal
streams. Many of California's indigenous peoples, such as the Miwok, Yurok,
Wintun and others, were dependent on salmon to provide a substantial part of
their staple diet and economic stability. Their cultural and religious
ceremonies reinforced the central role that salmon played in their natural view
of the world.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Early explorers such as Lewis and Clark
considered salmon "the West's greatest source of wealth" and made
note of the abundance of salmon in every stream and river and its importance to
local peoples. As the West was settled, salmon was to become an important cog
in its economic engine. The first Pacific Coast salmon cannery was on a barge
moored on the banks of the Sacramento River. This small canning operation was
the beginning of an industry that would spread to all the great rivers of the
West, leaving a legacy of jobs and wealth based on the natural cycle of the
salmon's return.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>This is a heritage we are in danger of losing
forever. For the second year in a row, the Pacific Coast has been closed to
salmon fishing, both commercial and recreational, because of the collapse of
Sacramento River runs. But it is not only the salmon and the salmon community
that are suffering, it is the entire Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem,
the most important and productive wetlands on the West Coast, that is
threatened.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>In five years, we've seen the complete
collapse of the food web in the delta. Populations of plankton and fish that
feed on them - delta smelt, longfin smelt, shad, immature striped bass and
salmon - have declined by 90 percent or more. We are experiencing a
catastrophic collapse of the entire delta ecosystem.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The reason for this is plain and simple: water
exports. Not enough water is flowing through the delta. Water issues in
California are often framed as "water needed for agriculture, jobs and
cities is being sacrificed for an inconsequential little fish, the delta smelt."<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>The truth is, water that could be used to the
benefit of wildlife, cities, family farmers, fishermen and California's Indian
tribes has been appropriated by corporate agribusiness. Tens of thousands of
jobs and billions of dollars are being lost because of the delta crisis, and
the treasured salmon runs of California are in real danger of disappearing.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>In coming weeks, the California Legislature
will address legislation on one of the state's most important issues, the
management of our water. We need to ask our legislators some questions before
they make the difficult decisions that will determine the future of the delta
ecosystem, our water and our fisheries:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Do we really believe that more dams,
reservoirs and a $25 billion peripheral canal (a pipe three football fields
wide), to pump water around the delta, will save the delta?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Why do we as taxpayers subsidize water for
agribusiness to grow water-intensive cotton and alfalfa in the desert?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>How did it come to be that 10 percent of
California's farmers use 70 percent of California's water?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>Maybe we need to consider conservation
incentives rather than water subsidies. Instead of more reservoirs, we should
talk about recharging the ground water aquifers that already exist, recycling,
desalination and retiring drainage-impaired agricultural land in the San
Joaquin Valley.<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style='line-height:21.0pt'><b>At 9 a.m. Tuesday, the Assembly Water, Parks
and Wildlife Committee will hold a hearing on proposed delta solutions
legislation in Room 4202 of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Possibly this will
be the one and only hearing for the public to comment on policies that could
permanently shape the delta's future and water use in California. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=dtlcomment style='line-height:21.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>Paul
Johnson is president of Monterey Fish Market of San Francisco and Berkeley and
the author of "Fish Forever" (Wiley, 2007).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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