Cheney's role in fish kill - investigation starts today

[deminks]

What role did the dark lord have in the fish kill - 65,000 salmon?

http://times-standard.com/local/ci_6506664

EUREKA -- On the eve of a House committee hearing on the role Vice President Dick Cheney played in Klamath River management decisions, fishermen decried the impact of political tampering on their ability to earn a living.

Congress, beginning today, is investigating Cheney's role -- if any -- in denying sufficient water for salmon in the Klamath River to support farmers in the upper Klamath Basin, despite the recommendation of scientists and others.

On Monday, several fishermen called in from their boats to attend a conference call with the group Earth Justice and described the impacts such management decisions had on their livelihoods.

Dave Bitts, a salmon fisherman out of Eureka, said that last year he and others in the industry caught only one-fifth of the fish they'd have normally landed in a year.

”When our opportunity to fish is attacked in this manner, it's not just us but it's the future of the fish themselves that's under attack,” Bitts said. “For 30 years, we've been learning to be stewards of the resources and do what we can to make sure that these fish can thrive in the rivers and in the ocean -- if we're driven off the ocean, we're not going to be able to do that anymore."

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There's that word that repug's can't stand - stewardship.