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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>David Bitts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:
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10.5pt;font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>In Memoriam:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Nathaniel S. Bingham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Harold
C. Christensen</span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>W.F. “Zeke”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Grader, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Italic","serif"'>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Glen H. Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Italic","serif"'>Northwest Regional<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Italic","serif"'>Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>Vivian Helliwell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Watershed<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conservation<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Duncan MacLean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Salmon
Advisor</span></i><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>PACIFIC COAST
FEDERATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond-Bold","serif"'>of
FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'> <b>May
27, 2010</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Zeke Grader, Pacific Coast
Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (415) 606-5140 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Dick Pool, Water 4 Fish,
(925) 963-6350<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Larry Collins, Pacific Coast
Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (415) 585-5711 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Fishermen Fear Delta Pump Ruling May Decimate Fall
Salmon Run<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i>Fall-Run
Chinook Are the Mainstay of California’s Salmon Fishery</i></b><b><i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>San Francisco --</span>
</b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>West Coast fishermen, shut out of fishing
for the past two years altogether and granted a 2010 fishery so tiny that most
will simply sit it out, fear that a Tuesday night ruling by Fresno-based judge
Oliver Wanger could be a serious disaster for the Sacramento River’s
fall-run chinook (‘king’) salmon resource.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Sacramento River fall run
chinook are the backbone of California’s 150-year-old salmon fishery and
a large contributor to Oregon and Washington ocean fisheries as well.
Strong runs of Sacramento River fall-run chinooks returned to the Central
Valley earlier in this decade – 768,000 adult fish up to 50 pounds each
found their way back to Valley streams in 2002. By 2009 that number
had crashed to 39,530 fish, driven down in large part by heavy increases in
State Water Project pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river Delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>While the Sacramento
River’s spring-run chinook juvenile fish have nearly finished their
migration through the Delta, the fall-run salmon and endangered species
act-listed steelhead will be migrating downstream through most of June, as will
those hatchery salmon released upstream. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The California Department
of Water Resources is already ramping up its Delta pumping, taking quick
advantage of Wanger’s ruling, from 1,500 cubic feet per second to nearly
6,000 cubic feet per second. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Dick Pool, a Bay Area
sports-fishing advocate, is concerned that this high level of pumping from the
Delta will not only suck baby salmon into the pumps but will trap thousands of
others trying to reach San Francisco Bay in the central Delta where their
chances of survival are slim. Pool describes the risks:
"There is no cover, little food and there are many predators in the
central Delta channels.” Studies show that most young
salmon never make it to the pumping plant. “Most of them fall to
predators or perish before they make it to the State Water Project pumps”
says Pool.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Under the Endangered
Species Act, Wanger is only required to consider the impacts of increased
pumping on the critically low winter- and spring-run chinook salmon and
steelhead, a close chinook salmon relative.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Fishing families and
communities along a thousand miles of coast have been hard hit by the closure
of the West Coast salmon fishery. “Salmon were about 60% of
my income,” said Larry Collins, a San Francisco-based
fisherman Collins has also seen a dramatic decline in fish in
San Francisco Bay. “The herring fishery collapsed, and everything
else is way down – likely due to the over-pumping in the Delta.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The collapse of the salmon
runs and the declining health of the Bay fisheries impacts everyone from
fish brokers to Bay Area restaurants unable to serve local salmon to
residents and tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>One 2009 study indicated
that California’s salmon fishing shutdown has cost the region 23,000 jobs
and $1.4 billion in annual income. The study found that full recovery of
California's salmon fisheries would create 94,000 new jobs and provide $5.6
billion annual economic gain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>###<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker, JcT</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends
of Trinity River</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>PO Box 2327</span></i><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Mill Valley, CA
94942-2327</span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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