Could this mean NMFS is ready to decide whether to list Gulf of Alaska Chinook salmon under the Endangered Species Act?
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These "negotiated" settlements in ESA lawsuits are the worst. If it can't stand the light of day, it shouldn't be a deal cooked up in a back room, among the lawyers (all collecting fee$).
How can you list a ubiquitous common species as endangered? There are more kings in the Gulf than there have ever been ... they just aren't headed to the rivers we want them to be.
Like Wild Atlantic Salmon on the Endangered List. Those hatcheries that began in the 1860's didn't save them. The Gulf of Maine population is listed as Endangered, and Critical Habitat was designated in 2009. Once the USF&W agents show up, originally U.S.Grant's Federal Fish Commission, they have bigger guns than NOAA. There's lots of Atlantic Salmon around, they're just not the real ones.
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