NOAA to Determine if Chinook Salmon Should Be Declared Endangered
NOAA Fisheries has initiated a review of the status of Gulf of Alaska Chinook salmon, to see if protections under the Endangered Species Act sought by a Seattle conservation group are warranted.
NOAA’s May 24 announcement in the Federal Register for a study sought by the Wild Fish Conservancy in Seattle, notes that in reviewing the conservancy’s petition it found numerous factual errors, omissions, incomplete references, and unsupported assertions and conclusions.
But the petition contained enough information for a reasonable person to conclude that the petitioned action may be warranted, NOAA said.
NOAA said the agency would accept public comment on the petition through July 23.
The conservancy, which advocates for more Chinook salmon to feed southern resident orca whales ...