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For Leslie Clark, 63, salmon fishing was a birthright -- a livelihood that has sustained four generations of his family. As a boy he learned from his father and grandfather the art of casting vast gill nets on the teeming waters of the Columbia River. After years of practice, he says...
Last fall the Snake River sockeye was added to the nation's endangered- species list, and this spring the National Marine Fisheries Service is expected to take similar action on behalf of most races of Chinook. These actions pave the way for an extensive salmon-recovery plan to be put...
Even so, the battle to save the salmon has generated far less rancor than the struggle between environmentalists and loggers over the northern spotted owl. In addition to its contribution to the Northwest economy -- $52 million a year in commercial fishing-related income alone -- the salmon has deep-seated symbolic...
Salmon lovers call completion of Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 one of the darkest moments for the fish. As 27-kg (60-lb.) "June hogs" made their summer migration upstream that year, following their unwavering instinct to return to the streams where they were born, thousands perished when they flung...
Here in Seabrook, telephone polls are adorned not only with political posters but with radiation detectors. Both Kennedy and Dukakis, fueled by public rage about locating a nuclear plant in such a populated area and near rich fishing waters, won overwhelming majorities here, according to town clerk Virginia Fowler.