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Salmon-case judge doesn't dine on the fish

By Jeff Barnard
Associated Press — Feb. 21, 2006

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

PORTLAND, Ore. — The man holding the Bush administration's feet to the fire on restoring Columbia Basin salmon, even if it means breaching some hydroelectric dams, doesn't like to eat the Northwest's signature fish. U.S. District Judge James Redden finds it too oily, unless it has been barbecued in the Indian fashion on planks around an open fire. At 78, he doesn't consider himself much of a salmon fisherman, though he cast spinners into the Rogue River in the 1950s. But in find ...

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