Thousands of salmon die in Calif.

It’s a long way from Northern California to Washington, D.C., but some fish made the journey Wednesday. They are just some of the thousands of dead salmon floating in the Klamath River, an environmental disaster Native Americans and fishermen are blaming on the Bush administration.

WOW,This is news!

Salmon dying trying to get to spawning grounds.

I hear this just started when Bush got elected!

Hey,wait a minute,don't the Yurok Indians kill Salmon when they harvest them,why this is an outrage,ban tribal fishing save the salmon!!!

Here's an interesting tidbit.

Sending water sent into the Klamath helps all kinds of fish by making the river flow faster and cooler. That pleases the members of the Yurok Tribe.

"I feel very privileged,' " said Nora Osburne, 28, who pitched a tent on a sandbar three weeks earlier and had so far caught 613 fat fall chinook in a set of gill nets strung before her in the river.

Although commercial fishing along the North California coast has been largely closed for a decade, and sport fishing has been cut sharply, tribal fishing, recognized by law, has continued. Last year tribal members caught 29,718 fall chinook, twice the allowed harvest of the year before.

This year's tribal quota is 60,000 fall chinook, the second-largest quota in 25 years.

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