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Screwy people. Screwy fish. The steelhead trout is the oddball of the Salmo family. It starts out life as a plain old rainbow trout. But then, for some curious reason that nobody has ever figured out, it suddenly gets itchy fins and migrates from its fresh-water birthplace down the rivers and out to sea. Its color changes from a bluish hue to steely silver (hence its name), its quarter-sized spots shrink to freckles, and it grows enormous for a trout: an average steelhead weighs 8 Ibs. (v. 1½ Ibs. for a rainbow), and big ones...
Finally, after two years of gallivanting around, the steelhead comes home to spawn. It even does that the hard way. Salmon spawn in October; rainbow trout lay their eggs in the fall and hibernate sluggishly on the bottom at the first cold snap. But winter-from...
First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...
Conservationist's Nightmare. The unexpected decision shocked the combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades...
Seattle has reported such leading conversational subjects as "steelhead trout running at Government locks," a judge's criticism of the brevity of drum-majorettes' costumes, and the tests of a new plane at Boeing Field. The federal tax paid by numbers racketeers was the leading subject in Cleveland one week, and Miami was recently discussing the record racing season at Hialeah. The talk in Oklahoma one week was the transfer of the 45th Infantry Division from Japan to Korea. Dallas discussed the tidelands oil fight and fretted over dust storms, and New Orleans deplored the poor weather...