Giving voice to salmon
- ISSN: 10730478
Abstract
It is perhaps instructive that he clear, pooled waters behind Bonneville Dam slid smoothly through the spill channels only to descend into a tumult of whitewater below. In a highly controversial move last spring, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) required federal dam operators along the Columbia River to open the floodgates, curtailing energy production in a last-ditch effort to steer beleaguered salmon runs away from the brink of extinction. For 40 days and 40 nights, the eight major hydroelectric projects on the mainstem Columbia diverted waters from the turbines through spillways designed for high runoff conditions. The spill was intended to speed young fish from upstream birthplaces to the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles away and reduce the mortality associated with producing the electricity that fuels the Northwest economy.
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