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Monday, May 12, 2008

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1. BIG RELEASE OF LITTLE FISH..........................VO/SOT

2. BIG PORN TAX HIKE?.........................................VO/SOT

3. NEW ASSEMBLY SPEAKER...............................VO/SOT

4. LITTLE LEGISLATORS........................................VO/SOT

5. NAKED GUY AT CAPITOL ARRESTED......................VO

1. BIG FISH RELEASE VO/SOT

LIVE: STATE FISH AND GAME OFFICIALS ARE INCREASING THE NUMBER OF YOUNG SALMON IT ACCLIMATES TO OCEAN CONDITIONS IN AN EFFORT TO BOOST OF THE SALMON POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA RIVERS. SALMON POPULATIONS HAVE DROPPED SO MUCH THAT STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS HAVE CLOSED THE FALL CHINOOK SALMON FISHING SEASON IN NEARLY ALL THE STATE'S WATERWAYS AND OFF THE PACIFIC COAST.

SUPER: TODAY/STATE CAPITOL

VO: (:30) SALMON SPAWN IN FRESH WATER, THEN THEIR OFFSPRING MIGRATE OUT TO SEA TYPICALLY FOR THREE TO FIVE YEARS BEFORE RETURNING TO THEIR NATIVE RIVERS TO REPEAT THE CYCLE. BECAUSE DAMS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE BLOCKED ACCESS TO MUCH OF THE CALIFORNIA'S NATURAL SPAWNING GROUNDS, THE STATE HAS BUILT HATCHERIES TO MAINTAIN THE SALMON POPULATION. THIS MORNING, THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME RELEASED ABOUT 350-THOUSAND HATCHERY-RAISED SALMON INTO SPECIAL FLOATING NETS OFF MARE ISLAND IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY. THE NETS WERE THEN TOWED FARTHER OUT INTO THE BAY, WHERE THE SALMON WERE RELEASED AFTER THEY ADJUSTED TO THE HIGHER SALT CONCENTRATIONS AND WATER TEMPERATURES OF THE BAY. BIOLOGIST KARI BURR SAYS PROTECTING THE YOUNG SALMON FROM PREDATORS WHILE THEY ACCLIMATE TO THE BAY INCREASES THEIR ODDS OF SURVIVING TO SPAWN THREE TO FIVE TIMES.

SUPER: KARI BURR/ FISHERY FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA

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SAYS: "IT ONLY TAKES A FEW HOURS. THESE FISH..., ...DEPENDING ON THE TIDAL CONDITIONS."

SUPER: NEIL MANJI /FISHERIES BRANCH CHIEF/CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME

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SAYS: "THIS IS ONE ASPECT, SINCE WE ARE IN SUCH A CRITICAL TIME OF THE YEAR, OR CRITICAL TIME OF SALMON RECOVERY, THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM WILL HOPEFULLY GET THE COMMERCIAL FISHERMAN, THE RECREATIONAL FISHERMEN BOTH IN THE OCEAN AND THE RIVER YOU KNOW, BACK TO WHAT THEY LOVE DOING, WHICH IS FISHING."

VO TAG: FISHERIES CHIEF NEIL MANJI SAYS THE STATE WILL RELEASE MORE THAN 17 MILLION HATCHERY SALMON USING ACCLIMATION NETS THIS YEARS, MORE THAN DOUBLE THE AVERAGE. FISH AND GAME OFFICIALS WILL ALSO ATTEMPT TO ENCOURAGE INCREASED SALMON SPAWNING BY REMOVING BARRIERS, ADDING IN-STREAM-STRUCTURES SUCH AS FISH LADDERS, AND ADDING GRAVEL TO SPAWNING AREAS. MANJI SAYS THE MOVEMENTS OF THE HATCHERY FISH ARE TRACKED, BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR LIFE CYCLE, IT WILL TAKE THREE TO FIVE YEARS TO DETERMINE THE SUCCESS OF THEIR EFFORTS.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

FISH AND GAME OFFICIALS COUNT THE RETURNING SALMON POPULATION TO DETERMINE THE HEALTH OF THE SPECIES AND TO SET FISHING LIMITS. THIS YEAR'S COUNT OF SACRAMENTO RIVER FALL CHINOOK SALMON WAS BETWEEN ONE-THIRD AND ONE HALF OF MINIMALLY ACCEPTABLE LEVELS, SO FEDERAL AND STATE OFFICIALS HAVE CLOSED THE FALL CHINOOK SALMON FISHING SEASON BOTH OFFSHORE AND IN CALIFORNIA'S INTERIOR WATERWAYS EXCEPT FOR A SHORT SECTION OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER NORTH OF SACRAMENTO DURING THE LATE FALL, AFTER THE REGULAR SPAWNING SEASON. THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION WILL VOTE ON KLAMMATH RIVER REGULATIONS NEXT MONTH.

EXTRA BITES:

SUPER: KARI BURR/ FISHERY FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA

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SAYS: "FISH NEED CERTAIN CONDITIONS, WATER QUALITY, WATER TEMPERATURE..., ...SOME OF THE IMPASSABLE AREAS."

SUPER: NEIL MANJI /FISHERIES BRANCH CHIEF/CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME

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SAYS: "THE DEPARTMENT, ALONG WITH THE FISHERIES FOUNDATION ARE ACTUALLY RELEASING MORE IN THE PENS THIS YEAR. THE LAST TEN OR 11 YEARS THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF FISH THAT'S BEEN ACCLIMATED BEEN ABOUT EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION FISH. THIS YEAR, THIS PROGRAM WILL BE ACCLIMATING UH, APPROXIMATELY 17 MILLION FISH FROM STATE HATCHERIES."