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Show The Salt Lake Tribune _THE WESTThursday,November22,2001 EffortsFail to Spur Idaho Sockeye Runs 98 Runner-Up Tfies Again for Navajo Top Job Deteriorated habitat and dams blamed for paltry salmon numbers CHINLE, Ariz. Joe Shirley Jr. who finished second in the Navajo presi. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | KETCHUM,Idaho — A dec- ade ago, the Snake River socksalmon gained federal proion onthe endangered speGies list, and the next year only one — dubbed LonesomeLarry + made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to its spawning beds in Redfish Lake. portrayed,” said formerstate fisheries biologist Dave Cannamela. “We need jast responsible. sockeye salmon re- turned to Redfish Lake between 1992 and 1997. Since 1997, just 291 more returned. “Tt’s nowhere near rece very levels,” manager Brent Snider at the Fish and Game Department’s Sawtooth Hatchery said. Captive breeding programs have contributed toa handful of relatively encouraging returns, but most, if not all, of the returning fish are hatcheryreared. Wild sockeye runs are all but gone. Last year, 257 sockeye returned to the Sawtooths, but they were all hatchery fish. Wyoming Seismic Map Plan Opposed ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS nched his campaign . Heisstarting early he think: last election becausehe did not allow enough time to | | Biologists are attempting to sustain the anemic sockeye population until permanent improvementsoccur. Idaho Fish and Gamebiologist Paul Kline heads the st: ’s sockeye captive breeulug program. Kline said the state program is currently at capacity and will not be expanded. “We could easily overwhelm thelakesifwe weren't care ul,” hesaid. “The year we returned ~ 257 adults, we actually. exceeded our capacity. We don't plan to produce that many fish again.” Divers for the National MarineFisheries Service haul in someof the 60 tons of netting and other debris foundin the waters off Kure Atoll, near the Northwestem Hawaiian Islands. compared with 50. percent ajoNation President Hawaii Seas Clogged Despite Cleanup THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU. — Divers have completed a three-month cleanupof60 tons ofnets and other debris from around the uninhabited North- and Atmospheric Administration. “Divers Spent many, many hoursactually y piece by piece netting entangled a Wend Goo, education and outé at marinelife, But despite the extensive cleanup, govern- mentscientists say up to 100tonsstill remain. Thedebris candestroy coral and entangle rare monkseals,turtles and other oceanwildlife in the island group, whichstarts about 200 miles north of Kauai andextends northwest about 1,000 miles. Several government agencies and private organizations, with more than two dozen sci- entists and researchers, were involvedin the $3 rent. million cleanup led by the National Oceanic western Hawaiian Islands as theytryto save takehis platformtoall areas of therest ion. In the November 1998 election. Shirley received about 38-percentofthetotal, The presidency “needs someone who knowshow to work with people, organiza: tions, big busi: other native nations, other gov ernments ... someone who knowshowto work through otherpeople, with those who ofthedi Scienti: other than Navajo,” at the Honolulu a examining thedebris to track it agencies plan to work with other count help educatefish useofthe oceans. Thegoa and others on responsible ‘oclean up all thedebris fromthe region.More than 118 tons havebeen collected sinceaclea Anup operation was first organized in 1998. Shirley said. Ss ; Who has a mas: ter’s in social work from ArizonaState University in ‘Tempe, also the office needs a professional, and he noted he has beena social worker. CLOSED TODAY. SHOP SPECIAL HOURS Ty CE} A.M, TO 9 P.M. _ LANCOME PINEDALE, Wyo. — A coa- lition of environmental groups has appealed a decision by the Bureau ofLand Managementto allow seismic mapping in western Wyoming. The groups say the potential for problems in the Upper Modern. Sophisticated. Light-filled. Serene. Discover the zest of GreenRiver Basin was notfully brilliant freesia, assessed. Instead, they contend the BLM approved projects in piecemeal fashion, failed to survey black-footed fertets, ‘ prairie dog towns, sensitive plants and other Wildlife and ignored impacts on migrating deer andantelope from seismic workduring the winter. Making the appeal are the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Wyoming Wildlife Federation and the Wyoming Outdoor Council. BLM Project Leader Bill Lanning countered that provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act were fol- lowed and that the Pinedale management plan requires. seismic projects to be considered individually. In addition, an- nouncedhe is running again. Shirley, a former Navajo Council delegate and member of the Apache County, Ariz., board of supervisors, cused on the barrier to migration created by the four lower and progrants to foster revival of a run that once numbered in the tens ofthousandshave produced little. Including Lonesome Larry, 11 dential race in 1998, Mother Nature to improve conditions with these damsin place.” The debate over the past decade has to a great extentfoSnake River dams. \ The government has yet to recommend the dams be breached as environmentalists have demanded. 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