Not exact matches
The
listing of the
coho salmon seems likely to fuel the already heated debate surrounding the Endangered Species Act this year.
In a move that is certain to provoke a bitter battle in Congress, the US National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed
listing three west coast populations of
coho salmon as threatened.
Although not all
coho salmon are endangered, in 1996 the federal government
listed Central California Coast ESU as threatened, and unfortunately in 2005, further downgraded this status from threatened to endangered.
The Southern Oregon / Northern California Coast
coho is federally
listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.