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Second, a salmon recovery plan must be an action plan, a 

 cookbook of measures and timetables leading to recovery. 



Third, a recovery plan must involve state fishery agencies 

 and affected Indian tribes and build on the results of Idaho 

 v. KMFS . 



Fourth, a salmon recovery plan must be implemented in full, 

 not selectively. 



Fifth, a recovery plan must focus on protection of the river 

 ecosystem, on migration of fish in the river. 



A Recovery Plan for the Salmon Is Long Overdue 



The controversies that confound salmon recovery in the 

 Columbia Basin are not new. Looking back almost fifteen years 

 ago, just before the passage of the Nor-thwest Power Act, the 

 political, legal, and scientific debates in the region were very 

 much the same as they are today: 



• The National Marine Fisheries Service was conducting a 



status review under the Endangered Species Act for all upper 



