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    A DISASTER??
    Thats not the word for it, I saw that news clip about a week or
    2 ago they were showing hundreds of salmon just laying all over
    the rocks, some looking for puddle to cool there faces,. it was
    a sad sight to see. the most of the salmon they were showing were
    3 to 4 ft. like they said there were disturbed people about this
    screw up. the one who closed of the water supply should be hung
    by his gill's, and forced to eat kiva suchee' i'm susprise chronical
    or pm magazine didnt run a segment of it.

    I'm wondering if the N.Y officials are trying to keep it quiet in
    order to minimize the economic impact to the business community?

    Jim

    Jim,
    I talked with somebody up there a couple of weeks ago
    and this is the story I got. The river wasn't actually the
    salmon river, it was the Oswego river, which is near the
    salmon river. The work on the damn was to install some kind
    of ladder system for the salmon. The water was down for a limited
    time and did kill off a substantial amount of fish in the river
    at that time, but there is a steady stream of fish entering the
    river from lake Ontario from late august to november. The fish
    do not reproduce naturally in the river. They lay their eggs and
    die, but the eggs never mature because of improper conditions.
    All the fish in the area are raised in a hatchery, and the hatchery
    doesn't even start the egg stripping operation until the middle
    of october. The report I got was that the amount of Salmon in the
    river was back to normal within several days, and now they have
    a chance to make it much further up the river which opens up lots
    of new oppurtunities for the anglers...so, as tragic as it was,
    it really has had no detrimental effect, and in reallity will be
    a big boost for the areas economy. I know somebody's going to say
    why didn't they do it at another time of year, but there are
    runs of steelhead and brown trout spaced out over other parts of
    the year, each with there dedicated band of followers who would
    be equally disturbed if it happened during that time of year, so
    it just goes to show sometimes you just can't win...
                                                        
    Marty

    Marty is absolutly right!!! It was the Oswego River, NOT the Salmon
    River. The shut down was actually timed to minimize the impact on
    a fish kill that they knew would happen. It was done early in the
    salmon run before the major part of the run. A friend of mine is a 
    DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) Marine Biologist for
    the area and totally supported what Marty said. The only problem
    was the smell and the utility company had to deal with that and
    do the clean up.
    The project will actually result in a significantly larger number
    of Salmon running and spawning in the Oswego River therefore increasing
    the Ontario Salmon population.
    
    Don

    
    WELL, atleast something good is getting back into the picture.
    and atleast the overall outcome will make everybody happy.So
    Dont worry be happy smoke bluefish ar ar ar

    Thank God  rumor control screwed up. Glad to hear its OK.
    Thanks for the info, I'll pass it on the guy here in SHR.
    
    Jim

    I was fishing there the day this happened.
    
    I was with another guy from arround here and we were staying with
    a friend near Osweago. There were dead fish all over the place.
    
    The friend from up there was here this weekend and told us the story.
    
    The electrictity company dumped thousands of dead fish into Ontario.,
    Most without saving the eggs.
                                
    The newspaper article on this can be obtained if requested.
    
    (Yes we each did catch a salmon.)
    
     David.
    

    RE -1,
              YO DAVE,
                       You caught salmon, but were they alive? har har
    
    NIGHTCRAWLER~~~~~~~