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It's a big issue. It affects both California and Oregon, and we're looking at a total ocean closure on salmon fishing.

Don Hansen

These are top-level predators. Like us, they eat anchovies, squid, salmon and mussels. They are sentinels for human health, because they share our ecosystems and prey. We may see impacts in sea lions before people - they could be an early warning.

Frances Gulland

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop. If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up - Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. Jodo Rem.

Ambrose Bierce

We cannot improperly hatch, and we cannot carelessly catch our way back to salmon recovery.

James Connaughton

It is important for us to hear from the public as we go about shaping this year's salmon fisheries.

Jeff Koenings

Counting hatchery fish the same as wild fish not only does not pass scientific muster, it would be a huge setback to efforts of citizens across the Northwest and California who are really trying to recover salmon.

Amy Kober

That's what we call Thai fusion. We use ingredients that are indigenous to a certain area like salmon and lamb, and cook them the Thai way.

Kessuda Raiva

It's never been an area where salmon could reach.

Dave Kvamme

As governor, Kempthorne led the charge to strip protection from 60 million acres of America's last wild forests and he's consistently fought against protection for wildlife like grizzly bears and salmon in his home state of Idaho.

Todd True

This estuary was a 40-foot-deep holding area for arriving salmon, and for juveniles heading out to sea, ... Now a wedge of sand and rock extends all the way upstream to Honeydew. Some estimate that area holds 80 million cubic yards of fill.

Chris Larson

Michael Owen - he's got the legs of a salmon.

Craig Brown

In the past, they had pretty good quotas for salmon. They let people fish, the more ice we sell.

Joe Marques

It's exciting to be in the big leagues and be playing at this level, but to be playing on a team like this is even more exciting. With Salmon and Erstad and some of those guys who have been around a while, they know how to play the game. I just try to hang around and pick their brains and do the things that they do.

Jeff Mathis

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

W. H. Auden

We're trying to determine if we get better results with these eggs than with salmon reared in a hatchery.

Pat Keliher

Bill stood his ground, ... and I'd say Tim Salmon turned out to be a pretty good player.

Mike Port

Courtney Salmon and Ashley Keller are at No. 3 and No. 4. These two girls are really at the top of their games.

Julie Floyd

In 1980 the Northwest Power Planning Council set its mission to protect and restore salmon and steelhead and to ensure that the Northwest had a reliable, affordable energy supply. Twenty years later, we have extinctions and blackouts.

Scott Bosse

The number of Atlantic salmon returning to U.S. rivers last year was one of the lowest ever recorded.

David Carle

As of now we can salmon fish inside of three miles, but if the commission chooses to shut down state waters to conform with the federal government at its April 6-7 meeting, we could lose that, too.

Roger Thomas

The agencies' refusal to list Atlantic salmon is a case study in politically driven and illegal decision-making under the Endangered Species Act.

Michael Senatore

Maybe when we go salmon fishing we'll know more about that, ... They're one of our business customers; it's a big business.

C. Michael Armstrong

It does not relate to other state labeling requirements, including Ohio's labeling requirements for honey or Alaska's regulations regarding farm-raised and salmon labeling.

Stephanie Childs

If it were easy, people would be doing grilled whole salmon all the time, .

Mark Franz

I can buy a frozen salmon right now, or I can buy a farm-raised salmon. But I just don't want to feature that. Maybe I'll be selling halibut, instead.

Jack Mitchell

We've long been aware of the environmental responsibilities you've got when you're in this kind of business. We only feed the salmon shrimp meal, and as far as stocking density's concerned, only one per cent of the volume of the cage is fish.

Angus Macmillan

It was a wonderful event. Salmon Arm did a great job.

Bill Bestwick

Some of the fires in Idaho and Montana are affecting wildlife habitat and salmon habitat in places we're trying to restore salmon runs, ... So the fire is working against us, and we're going to have a lot of work after the fires are out to try and rehabilitate these areas and try to reduce the risk of more resource damage.

James Lyons

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Dave Chitty

We are going to keep our eye on the prize. Our emphasis is going to be on the collaboration process that the region is now engaging in to find long-term solutions to address salmon recovery.

Mike Hansen

This is, in my memory, probably going to be the most difficult salmon season for us to cope with. It's going to be very difficult to come through this.

Jeff Feldner

It is not thought that the temperature change is the direct cause. It is thought that as the climate changes the way the ocean works, it changes availability of food for young salmon.

Bruce Finney

In 1984, we had snow down to the reservoirs in Oakley and Salmon Falls. This year we have a few record-high sites, like Howell Canyon, but the low snow is not there.

Ron Abramovich

Three years ago, the salmon industry was at rock bottom. Now demand exceeds supply.

Bill Hines

It is confusing for the public. We're saying we need to protect a lot more habitat than the feds call for in their critical habitat plan for Puget Sound salmon.

Jim Kramer

A lot of people are going to lose their jobs. It will mean ocean-catch salmon will be much harder to get. And it will be much more expensive.

Glen Spain

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

Terry Garcia

The scientific community urges immediate protection of the Hanford Reach ecosystem as the core strategy to recover Columbia Basin salmon.

Rebecca Wodder

These are very encouraging figures but we must not be complacent. We must make sure that future agricultural and aquaculture practices protect rather than impact on wild salmon stocks, and we need to fund further research into predation and general marine survival.

Paul Knight

Year in, year out, salmon is the one that they depend upon. It's their anchor fishery.

Zeke Grader

For most fishermen, salmon is critical for a major portion of their income. This is a killer. This is a fishery that's a century old and this is the first time to my knowledge that it would be totally closed.

Zeke Grader