Fishing a growth industry? Maybe for the legal profession
By KBarton10 on Feb 22, 2008 in current events, environment
It sure looks like migratory fish are the new growth industry for the legal profession, another lawsuit filed here in California seeks the elimination of two aging dams on the Yuba River.
The Daguerre Point (1906) and Englebright (1941) dams just upstream of Marysville, they no longer produce power, water, or serve as a flood barrier – but they continue to impede salmon.
Federal agencies acknowledge their continued impact on fish, as neither dam has a functioning fish ladder.
Removal or successful mitigation of the obstruction would add nearly 100 miles of additional spawning habitat. In light of this year’s overall decline in returning salmon, it may add additional pressures on the Army Corp of Engineers, their current owner.
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Tom Chandler/Trout Underground | Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
Hey Singlebarbed, since they serve no useful purpose, lets you and I take these suckers out this weekend.
Gary Reed | Feb 27, 2008 | Reply
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Linda Babcock | Mar 2, 2008 | Reply
I read this blog in the SacBee. What can a person do to help this law suit? It sounds like the letter-writing, grass-roots-influence stage is over. Does the prosecuting party need funds to support/maintain the legal fees? To whom can I mail money?
KBarton10 | Mar 2, 2008 | Reply
Linda,
The environmental groups that filed the suit are the “Friends of the River” and “South Yuba Citizen’s League.”
Their website has information on the subject and status of the suit.
Citizen’s League, http://www.syrcl.org/
Friends of the River, http://www.friendsoftheriver.org/site/PageServer?pagename=FORAboutUs