Nevada Conservationists and Businesses Hail Senator's Leadership on Key Salmon Recovery Issue
| By: Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition Published: Sep 18, 2007 at 08:29 | Email this article Printer friendly page |
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to require fish passage at the Hells Canyon Complex on the Snake River as a condition of renewing the dams' federal operating license. The Idaho Power Company is currently seeking to renew its license for the three dams along the Idaho-Oregon border, which today block salmon from returning to the upper reaches of the Snake River Basin and effectively wiped out the historic salmon runs that once graced northeast Nevada rivers. The Senate Majority Leader's request, made via a letter to FERC, was echoed by federal, state and tribal fisheries biologists.
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