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Article: Why the fish ran out of water.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Saturday, Nov. 2:
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The salmon kill this fall on the Klamath River, which wends its way from Oregon into northern California, reignited a local war among farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and Indian tribes over a fundamental question: How to distribute a limited amount of water?
Nearly 30,000 adult salmon died in the Klamath's final 20-mile stretch, before it empties into the Pacific Ocean _ one of the largest kills in memory. The salmon, mostly Chinook, swim upstream to spawn, but this year most of them never got past the shallow waters in the lower river basin. The ...