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Bluefish.org Offers Reward by Staff Idaho Mountain Express, May 23, 2008

A locally based Web library that features issues pertaining to salmon recovery is offering $1,000 for information leading to science-based support of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries' claim that a 2008 salmon plan provides for "recovery" of Idaho's sockeye salmon.

The Web site's administrator, Scott Levy, has not been able to find justification in the current plan, which can be found at www.salmonrecovery.gov/.

Recovery is defined by Levy as a one-to-one, adult-to-adult return ratio, which means for every two salmon that return to Idaho to spawn, two adults return four years later. The definition of recovery by the government, Levy said, is "much less well defined."

"I have been unable to find justification in the current plan, and I'm seeking assistance from biologists or interested parties in revealing such justification to our Web site visitors," Levy said. Levy can be contacted at www.bluefish.org.

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BLUEFISH.ORG WEBSITE OFFERS $1000 REWARD
How does the 2008 Salmon Plan recover Idaho's Sockeye?

The resource library www.bluefish.org is offering a one thousand dollar reward for information leading to science-based support of NOAA Fisheries' claim that the 2008 Salmon Plan provides for recovery of Idaho's Sockeye Salmon. Recovery is defined by bluefish.org director Scott Levy as a one-to-one adult to adult return ratio (i.e. for every two adult spawners, two adults return to spawn four years later).

Levy goes on to say, "After reading through the four thousand plus pages of the 2008 Salmon Plan (officially the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries' 2008 Federal Columbia River Power Systems Biological Opinion, or NOAA Fisheries' 2008 FCRPS BiOp), I was unable to find evidence to support the NOAA Fisheries conclusion that 'the FCRPS RPS is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of the Snake River Sockeye ESU.' As I may well have missed something, I am looking for someone to help reveal to our website visitors how this latest plan will lead to recovery of Idaho's Sockeye."

Contact www.bluefish.org with any information leading to science-based support that the proposed 2008 Salmon Plan provides for recovery of Idaho's Sockeye salmon and receive the one thousand dollar reward. The supporting document that you provide will be made available on the www.bluefish.org website for the many visitors interested in the plight of Idaho's wild Salmon and Steelhead. State, Tribe and NOAA Fisheries' biologist are eligible for the reward.