ANGLING GROUP MAKES PLEA CALTROUT SEEKS TO PROTECT FISH AT PIRU CREEK.Byline: Bill Becher Special to the Daily News An angling group has asked Mike Chrisman, California's secretary for resources, to postpone post·pone tr.v. post·poned, post·pon·ing, post·pones 1. To delay until a future time; put off. See Synonyms at defer1. 2. To place after in importance; subordinate. approval of the environmental study of a controversial plan that would eliminate summer water flows in Piru Creek Piru Creek is a large stream in northern Los Angeles County and western Ventura County, California. It is a tributary of the Santa Clara River, the largest stream system in Southern California that is still relatively natural. in drought years, killing the creek's wild trout trout: see salmon. trout Any of several prized game and food fishes of the family Salmonidae, native to the Northern Hemisphere but widely introduced elsewhere. Though most species inhabit cool fresh waters, a few (called sea trout; e.g. population. In a letter to Chrisman sent Monday, CalTrout writes that the proposed plan by the state's Department of Water Resources will destroy a highly popular and rare trout fishing water adjacent to the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. metropolitan area and cause an embarrassment for the Schwarzenegger Administration. The water agency plans to replace wild trout with stocked fish. ``Piru is the closest place I have to go to fish,'' said Rob Rubin, a fly-fisherman from Agoura. ``I learned to fly fish there.'' Rubin said fishing for stocked fish is not the same as pursuing wild trout. ``I leave the stocked fish for families who come up with 12-year-olds so they can all have five fish each,'' he said. ``I go downstream and get into bigger wild fish. It would never be the same without the wild fish.'' The state water agency has said the plan is necessary to protect endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. arroyo toads The Arroyo toad, Bufo californicus is a stocky, blunt-nosed, warty-skinned species of toad, between 5 and 7.5 cm long. It has horizontal pupils, and is greenish, grey or salmon on the dorsum with a light-colored stripe across the head and eyelids. . A spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is responsible for the toads, has said the federal agency is willing to work to produce a water management plan that can help the toads and spare the trout fishery. That's what CalTrout manager Jim Edmondson wants. He is asking Chrisman to hold off on the current plan until anglers and federal and state agencies can meet to work out a compromise that would preserve the wild trout and save the arroyo toads. Sandy Cooney, deputy secretary for communications at Chrisman's office, did not respond to requests for comment on CalTrout's letter. |
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