Posted on 05/11/2005 1:50:08 PM PDT by freebilly
DAVENPORT — Almost two months after a dozen fish were killed at a Davenport hatchery, federal investigators are looking for a break in the case.
NOAA Fisheries investigators are offering $5,000 for information about the mid-March killing of the steelhead at the hatchery operated by the Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project
"If we crack it, it will be because of public input," NOAA Fisheries Agent Joe Giordano. "We just haven’t had much luck."
Investigators said a freshwater tank had been tainted with chlorine. The dead fish were discovered during a routine check of the tank.
Steelhead in Central California are listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act and harming them can land a person in jail for up to six months.
The incident cut short this year’s effort at restoring steelhead to the San Lorenzo River, said Dave Streig, the only paid employee of the otherwise volunteer group.
Seven of the dead fish were females, he said. Those females can produce 5,000 to 9,000 eggs.
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Three mature females were able to be released back into the river.
The hatchery has operated since 1982 on property owned by Big Creek Lumber Co.
The group has released more than 2 million salmon and steelhead into streams since the effort began, while also offering educational programs for schoolchildren.
Steelhead are born in freshwater and migrate to the ocean, where they reach adulthood before returning to fresh water to reproduce.
Investigators asked that anyone with information call NOAA’s law enforcement hotline at (800) 853-1964 or call Giordano at (707) 575-6073.
Just kidding!
5000 dollars for killing 12 fish ?? WTF ?
Depends upon if you have the determination to read it.
The first chapter is a bear (it's online). The next two lay a foundation. Then it gets interesting with a long lesson in resource economics as applied to the deliberate conversion of timber industry land to residential real estate in Santa Cruz, using zoning and regulatory power.
Then you get the theory of a free proposed market system followed by four cases that show how and why it would work both for humanity and God's gift thereto.
The book winds up with a discussion of the law, the UN, and why the environment is a life and death issue for this nation. It's a monster, but it's important.
ELF burns down houses, which is also weird for a tree-saving group.
But about 80,000 Eggs.
Make that, entire waterSHEDS. All the land from ridge to ridge.
Interesting isn't it, that the spill you have to allow down the river for fish, instead of saving them, causes the fish more harm than good (the extra oxygen attacks their systems). It costs you $3 BILLION dollars in natural gas to make up for the lost hydro power.
Now, for twenty points, guess who funds the greenie lawsuits to list the fish? Hmmmm?
The Pew "Charitable" Trusts, also known as SUNOCO.
Do you 'pat' the fish to remove contaminants before or after cooking? Here in Alaska we don't have that quandary!
Bingo. Hope they catch the jerks that did this, enviros or not.
Here in Oregon, I haven't even bothered with going fishing the last couple of years. Too many regs, despite seemingly ever increasing fish runs.
They don't want any hatcheries.
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Nope! They don't want no steeeeeeeeenkin' hatcheries !!! ;-))
Steelhead and other salmon species are indeed threatened in the region. I have a family member who works at a hatchery. Those funds have been cut and people laid off right and left. My license fees pay for conservation and any unathorized take of any fish, whether it be this or poaching, is a disturbing issue. Any local extinction is disturbing as well, from an angler/conservationist viewpoint.
"Guaranteed it is the local envirowhacks who did it."
No way. As much as you might not like environmentalists, they care very deeply about endangered species. They do, as well, volunteer their time to preserve species. I have a close friend who seeks out and photographs threatened and endangered wildflowers all over California, every year, and donates his pictures to preservation projects and museums. You will not convince me he is a flower killer. His work had gone toward preserving several varieties that would otherwise be lost to us.
"In their eyes, stocked fish aren't 'natural'.
So by killing fish in stock tanks, they're 'cleansing the fish gene pool of human interference' in their small minds."
Stocked fish aren't natural, but if an "enviornmental whacko" did anything, he'd bust the dams (representing human interference), not kill off the fish. Just because you disagree with eco politics doesn't mean people who care about the enviornment are criminals.
"Just like in their minds, burning a building and construction vehicles makes sense despite the fire putting out far more pollution than either the house or the vehicles would in their entire service lives."
Who is "they?" Anyone who works on behalf of the enviornment? Why clump in millions of well-meaning conservationists with a few mentally ill folks who take up the extremist banner? Isn't it easy to demonize the many based on the actions of a few? Are all pro-life people abortion doctor killers because of a few deranged folks?
If not, you'll have to consider that most conservationists are law-abiding, well meaning folks who selflessly give of their time to help God's creation.
"While their goals are long term, the individuals behind it seem to lack any depth, an inability to think beyond the immediate."
It seems people have quickly jumped to conclusions here. When the perp is found, will there be retractions?
If you deem it necessary, you will be welcome to.
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