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BiOp need not be challenged, instead the agencies should
reinitiate consultation and adopt new protective measures
to avoid jeopardy. <br>
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The new fish health information should be enough to get
NMFS to reopen the biological opinion protecting coho
salmon voluntarily. There is a disease condition for BOR's
operations on BiOp p. 392, Table 13.6 "Summary of annual
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take of SONCC coho salmon expected to occur as a result
of the proposed action". It says, for C. shasta:
"Measured by a surrogate of <b>up to 54 percent (via
histology or 49 percent via QPCR) of the total annual
Chinook salmon juveniles in the mainstem Klamath River
between the Shasta River and the Trinity River may be
infected with C. shasta during the months of May to
July.</b>" </span><span
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infection rate of 90-100% of juveniles is twice the
incidental take that was anticipated; it should be
enough to trigger reinitiation. <br>
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BiOp page 410 says: </span><span
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provided in 50 CFR §402.16, reinitiation of formal
consultation is required where discretionary Federal
agency involvement or control over the action has been
retained (or is authorized by law) and if: (1) <b>the
amount or extent of incidental take is exceeded</b>;
(2) new information reveals effects of the agency action
that may affect listed species or critical habitat in a
manner or to an extent not considered in this opinion;"</span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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Tom<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/19/2015 12:49 PM, Felice Pace
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<div>Last year up to 100% of the juvenile salmon which were
captured and tested while migrating down the Klamath River
in hopes of reaching the Pacific Ocean were found to be
diseased. Only 8% of the juvenile salmon fitted with radio
transmitters made it to the Klamath Estuary and to the
Pacific Ocean. This year few juvenile salmon are showing up
in down-migrant monitoring traps; up to 100% of juvenile
salmon tested are already diseased even before the hottest
months with the worst water quality have arrived. <br>
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<div>Independent scientists at Oregon State University say
that "severe infection by the myxozoan parasite <em>Ceratomyxa
shasta</em> has, in large part, been responsible for the
declining numbers of juvenile KR fall Chinook and coho
salmon and subsequent impacts on later adult returns." They
add that "the reduction of the commercial (ocean salmon)
catch by 90% in 2006 was a direct result of the weak returns
of Chinook salmon to the Klamath River (KR)." <br>
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Read the entire statement by OSU scientists and access
related information at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/content/disease-effects-wild-populations.">http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/content/disease-effects-wild-populations.</a><br>
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The Klamath River's unprecedented salmon disease epidemic is
negatively impacting coastal economies in Oregon and
California, not to mention Klamath River and tribal
communities. Why is it then that we read nothing about this
in the press? Why are the tribes, fishing organizations and
environmental groups which claim to be champions and
defenders of Klamath Salmon silent? And how is it that a
Biological Opinion (on operation of the Bureau of
Reclamation's Klamath Irrigation Project) can stand
unchallenged when that Opinion robs the Klamath of the
flushing spring flows which scientists say are one of the
few things humans can do to stem a Pacific Salmon disease
epidemic that is both unprecedented and the direct result of
the Klamath's terrible water quality? <br>
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<div>Most importantly, which tribe, fishing or
environmental organization will end the silence
and step up to challenge the Biological Opinion
which is killing most of the juvenile salmon
produced in the Klamath River, its tributaries and
even the Iron Gate Hatchery?<br>
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Felice Pace<br>
Klamath, CA 95548<br>
707-954-6588 <br>
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