Lawmakers urge governor to seek federal disaster relief for Oregon salmon industry
by News Staff
FILE - In this June 27, 2012, file photo, a Chinook salmon, second from the bottom, swims in the Columbia River with sockeye salmon at the Bonneville Dam fish-counting window near North Bonneville, Wash. Wildlife officials in Oregon are trapping California sea lions that have migrated about 130 miles inland and then returning them to the Pacific Ocean in trucks because the pinnipeds have been gorging on threatened steelhead and chinook salmon as they spill over fish ladders at key dams. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)