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Young Salmon Need To Migrate In 

 Rivers — Nol In Tiiicks and Baiges! 



.. , J? Sierra 



HACIHC NORTHWEST 

 Wll I) SALMON CAMPAIGN 



Northwest Office 



1516 Melrose Ave. 

 Seattle WA 98122 

 (2061 621- 1696 



Columbia Basin liranch Office 



Route 2, Box 303 A 

 Pullman WA 99163 

 15091332-5173 



Barging Doesn't Work 



Millions ol Smolls Bargud 



Thousands ol Reluming Adulls 

 ri ihai 'smdl year) 



riio Idaho Oapanmeiii ol Fish and Game has compiled 

 nialtun thai domonstialos an i.'ivo/so relationship belvwoc 

 number ol small salmon smells ihat are barged and Iho nu 

 ol adulls Ihal rolum trom each 'smolt year ' 



Fur the last 15 years the US 

 Army Corps of Engineers has 

 collected tiny, migrating juvenile 

 salmon and physically hauled 

 them downstream in lank trucks 

 or barges around the eight huge 

 federal dams that span the lower 

 Columbia and Snake Rivers Yes, 

 they have "taken fish out of wa- 

 ter" and put them on trucks and 

 barges rather than undertake 

 changes to the dams and their op- 

 eration to make the hydropower 

 system less deadly for fish 



Not only is it a ridiculous "so- 

 lution" to transport fish In barges, 

 but it simply has not worked — it 

 has not reversed the march to ex- 

 tinction of wild salmon in the Co- 

 lumbia and Snake Rivers 



A new analysis indicates that 

 the barging and 

 trucking program 

 may actually be more 

 detrimental to wild 

 salmon than negoti- 

 ating the lethal corri- 

 dor of dams and res- 

 ervoirs. And, the data 

 that the Army Corps 

 of Engineers has al- 

 ways used to justify 

 the barging program 

 has been shown by a 

 team offish biologists 

 to be seriously 

 flawed. 



This new informa- 

 tion, plus fifteen 

 years of barging ex- 

 perience while 

 salmon populations 

 have continued to col- 

 lapse toward extinction, has now 

 led fisheries agencies to question 



the effectiveness of the barging 

 program they once supported 



SALMON ADVOCATES and conser- 

 vationists have long believed thai 

 to save threatened and endan- 

 gered wild salmon in the Colum- 

 bia and Snake River basin, fish 

 barging must end Instead of us- 

 ing the fish barging program to 

 create the illusion offish "protec- 

 tion,"' the Array Corps of Engi- 

 neers must begin modifications to 

 the mainstem dams and their op- 

 eration in order to provide safe, 

 in-lhe-river migration fur finger- 

 ling salmon. 



Why hauling salmon 

 downstream doesn't work — 

 and will never work 



Under the Corps' fish barging 

 program, migrating juveniles are 

 captured at upstream dams ^ 

 l,ower Granite and Little Goose 

 in the Snake River — and loaded 

 into trucks and barges for the 

 one- or two-day trip to below 

 Bonneville Dam. This creates se- 

 rious problems, especially from a 

 fish's point of view: 



Physical Stress— At each dam, 

 the fish are sucked into the pow- 

 erhouse intakes where about half 

 of them are diverted into a by- 

 pass channel inside the dam 

 Then the fish are shunted at high 

 pressure through a l/'l-mile long 

 pipeline to a facility where they 

 are "de-watered" so that they can 

 be sorted by size They are then 

 placed in holding tanks and fi- 

 nally are crowded into trucks or 



The Sicn-j Clut) Wild Salmon Cainpjign socks Id prcilcci and rcsiorc wild salmon runs ihriHighoui ihc Pacific Nuilhwcsl. Younij Salimin 

 Need To MiKrale In Kivcry— Nol In Trucks and narges is one nl J scries iif Sicna Club discussiim papers on rcslofauon of wild 

 salmon. Wnllcn by Jim Baker. Sicna Club Columbia Basin Branch Ollicc and Julia Rcilan, Sierra Club Nonhwcst Office; with cdiiorial 

 assistance by Lorri Botli and Kalherinc Ransel. American Rivers Norlhwesi Ollice; Tim Sicarns ami Pal Ford. SOS. Save Our Wild 

 Salmon. © Copyrnjhl Sieiia Club. May I'W V Primed on recycled pj|)cr. 



