Coalition for Smart Salmon Recovery Says Today's Spill Proposal ''Doesn't Go Far Enough''.News Editors PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004 "This proposal doesn't go far enough. The Administration and federal agencies missed another opportunity, based on good science, to help salmon and help our economy," said Shauna McReynolds, spokesperson for the Coalition for Smart Salmon Recovery. The federal government announced today its modified proposal for "summer spill spill - register spilling " reductions on four dams on the Snake and lower Columbia rivers Columbia River River, southwestern Canada and northwestern U.S. Rising in the Canadian Rockies, it flows through Washington state, entering the Pacific Ocean at Astoria, Ore.; it has a total length of 1,240 mi (2,000 km). . "While we are disappointed, this is a step in the right direction and should be the start of a complete review of all our spending decisions regarding salmon recovery," said McReynolds. "Our coalition intends to stay focused on cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. salmon efforts." Currently, BPA BPA British Paediatric Association. spends $77 million on summer spill during July and August to save 24 threatened Fall Chinook Chinook, indigenous people of North America Chinook (shĭn  k`, chĭ–), Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. . That works out to more than
$3 million per fish.
The Coalition has urged federal agencies to eliminate summer spill in both July and August, and implement two proven alternatives that would save up to 50,000 more fish annually and $75 million a year. The Coalition for Smart Salmon Recovery is a partnership of farmers, employers, utility customers, and public power providers in Washington, Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. , Idaho and Montana. -- There is no credible scientific proof that the lack of spill in 2001 relates to the lower than expected adult returns observed this year. State harvest managers downgraded the spring run and are at a loss to explain what happened. -- The proposal is a step in the right direction because it establishes cost-effectiveness cost-effectiveness pertaining to cost-effective. cost-effectiveness analysis a comparison of the relative cost-efficiencies of two or more ways of performing a task or achieving an objective. as an objective in determining salmon recovery measures. -- The federal agencies are relying on NOAA's analysis, which has been conservative in estimating the benefits to salmon and has maximized the impacts of spill. -- The proposal to reduce spill is partially in response to calls from regional elected officials to find more cost-effective ways to recover salmon. -- This proposal does not go far enough. It still contains too much waste and missed opportunity to provide an additional boost to the Northwest economy. |
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