Tiny salmon trapped as dam operators cut flows downriver 
By ROBERT McCLURE CA Source: seattle pi 3/13/2003

Hundreds of thousands of just-hatched salmon could die this weekend as power demand dips and dam operators hold back water from the last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River, tribal fisheries officials fear.
 

As the Columbia's Hanford Reach receded over the past two weekends when power demand dropped, an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 young chinook died -- either trapped in overheated side pools or left high and dry to bake in the sun, according to estimates by the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

 
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