Posted on 11/20/2009 1:17:01 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NILE, Wash. – A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.
The landslide that inundated the Naches River last month created a barrier of millions of cubic yards of silt, mud and rock that slowed — and likely confused — spawning salmon and hungry trout. Then workers opened a freshly dug river channel that stranded small fish in ponds and marshes.
Fisheries biologists from 10 government agencies and private groups are working shifts to try to save the fish. The effort marks a step forward in rebuilding a rural area where the focus has been aiding the residents of as many as 600 homes who could be cut off from the outside world due to flooding or snowy weather this winter.
"The fish need help too," said Derek Newton, 70, who has volunteered for the Nile Fire Department for 10 years.
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fish are held against their will . FRee the talapia!
Tilapia fish gather at a viewing window in their holding tank at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine labs in Laurel, Maryland, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES HEALTH ANIMALS)
Good Lord, its a wonder the pre-Columbian ancestors of these fish survived without government biologists.
Or back in ‘80 after Mt St Helens?
I’ve fished that river.
Lotsa Dolly Varden. (bull trout). Some pretty good sized ones, too! Fun fish to catch, eat-wise, I can take it or leave it...
Hundreds?????????????????????????????????????
My God! How many tens of thousands of dollars are being spent to save these HUNDREDS of fish?
Thousands, millions, OK. Hundreds? Let them die.
They are interfering with natural selection..
If mother nature wants them dead, then who are we to interfere with her plans...
Say WA? Evergreen State ping 10 Govt. Agencies, mind you.
Then we have the 70 yr old volenteer fireman pitching a hand.
Probably could save more fish and tax dollars to use LESS govt agencies and more volenteers.
Fer cryin out loud.
Net em and have a fish fry for the needy.
Then allow the marine bioligist to take their share to study minus any Govt. grants.
True.
And in the big scheme of things they may have been fish with spinning disease or some such thing and by natural happenings they were taken out of the major population there fore saving the entire species from some life extincting fish illness.
Fish quarentine by nature.
: )
But! but! but! there might be another Nemo.
You are so right about that....:O)
That looks delicious.
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