Nmfs Quotes

The report calls for more water flow on a voluntary basis. It does not require any one that is involved to make sacrifices. The new plan relies on maximum fish barging. This is not the aggressive non-dam breaching plan NMFS said it was going to be. It's a passive, non-breaching plan. - Scott Bosse

NMFS is talking 15 percent overall. It's a whole lot less than 30 percent overall. - Phil Anderson

It's time for NMFS to step in and do their job... NMFS needs to make a determination that the fishery is managed first to protect the environment and marine mammals, and not primarily for the economic benefit of the fishing industry. - Paul Clarke

It makes no sense to put dam removal on the back burner and to place all eggs in the 'other measures' basket, when there are no affective alternatives to dam removal that the NMFS has put on the table. A big illusion among the public is that those alternatives (to dam removal) have been identified by the NMFS. Somewhere between May 18 and the draft biological opinion that is now public, a decision was made to abandon the course that was consistent with the best science. The NMFS doesn't have that freedom. - Rob Masonis