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restiore and enhance our salmon resources. Fortunately, 

 there are a number of other beneficial strategies — 

 improved flows, temperature controls, harvest restrictions, 

 and continued habitat improvements — that can be 

 effectively pursued as the region moves toward its long- 

 term recovery decisions, including those related to juvenile 

 transportation and drawdown, p 4. 



Dr. Carl B. Schreck. 

 Oregon Cooperative Fishery Research Unit 



VII. In fact, it is not a recovery plan at all. When one strips 

 away the background material and documentation, all that is 

 left is the recommendation that more committees and research 

 are needed so that the essential plans can be made at some 

 unspecified time in the future. . .The time to bite the 

 bullet is now! We need decisions now, and while they many 

 not be perfect (hopefully they can be corrected as we go 

 along) , at least that is better than trying to do it when 

 the runs are down to six fish or less, p 1. 



VIII. For each recommendation in the "Draft" there needs to 

 be an explanation or description of "how it will be 

 carried out." p 2. 



IX. Unless the plan gets specific, it might as well recommend 

 the development of fairy dust that when applied will, poof!, 

 return the runs to historic levels. And then, it might as 

 well also recommend formation of a committee to ensure that 

 the dust is correctly sprinkled, p 2. 



X. This gets me to the subject of risk assessment. I was 

 svirprised that neither environmental nor genetic risk 

 assessments were applied to evaluate the efficacy of any of 

 the recommended actions, p 6. 



XI. [G]iven ESA, there is now the urgent need to look at the 

 whole system. The recovery plan needs to address the entire 

 Snake/ Columbia hydrosystem to propose those interim measures 

 needed to prevent extinctions before the true recovery 

 measures are in place. For example, what are the 

 recommended spill and flow patterns needed for the next 5 

 years and are the estimates made in calculating these erring 

 on the side of fish? p 6. 



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