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Help For West Coast Fishing Industry
Economic Disaster Declaration Near For Salmon Fishermen In Oregon And California

GRANTS PASS, Ore, July 7, 2006
salmon in californiaCalifornia Department of Fish and Game fisheries biologist Mark Hampton examines a dead chinook salmon, Nov. 12, 2004, on Bogus Creek, a tributary of the Klamath River near Hornbrook, Calif. (AP Photo)

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'We will move quickly to implement both a short- and long-term effort to find ways to help.'
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez


(AP) Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez has agreed to take the first steps toward declaring an economic disaster for salmon fishermen in Oregon and California, whose season has been virtually shut down to protect dwindling returns to the Klamath River.

Gutierrez said"