[rontorr]

yeah, the Klamath tribe like them suckers, but most Oregon people say: "never give a sucker an even break", in fact when we catch them we thump em on the head and throw them up n the bank, no one waqnts to eat them, as well as no native Oregonian would even consider eating a catfish, which are given the same ritual "burial" as suckers.

[marsh2]

I was told that they have found a "hot spot" of ceratomyxa shasta (a fish-killing spore) around Indian Creek - Happy Camp. That is where they had a fish kill this year (even with all the above average tributary flows.) It had nothing to do with the Upper Basin.

By the way, the autopsy reports on last years fish from the USFWS have not yet been released, so the jury is still out on that.

[farmfriend]

An American Indian rights group is complaining that the National Academy of Sciences committee that reviewed the 2001 Klamath Basin irrigation shut-off was biased in favor of the economic interests of farmers.

Having attended the meeting where the science they used was presented, I can tell you that this is the biggest load of manuer I've heard in a long time. The science didn't stand up to the test. I was there. Was he?

[SierraWasp]

"Scientists for the California Department of Fish and Game blame the fish kill on low water in the river."

Yeah, and these political scientists need the lynx hairs trimmed from their noses that grow longer and longer!!!

[Iconoclast2]

The Native American Rights Fund is a particularly evil group. NARF is to rank and file Tribal members as the Steelworker Union operatives are to real steelworkers: in both cases a bunch of commie parasites who are keeping the members down on the plantation. Of course, the Tribes do have their corrupt elite that lives off the casino winnings.

[hattend]

Echohawk says the Klamath Tribes once harvested tens of thousands of pounds of suckers. But he says the Indians have not been able to take more than two a year for ceremonial purposes the past 15 years.

Right, Chief. It's the farmers' fault you can't catch the fish. How long ago was the sucker fish put on the ESA protected list? What? Fifteen years? Whoa!!