Those who objected to the listing based their arguments on the grounds that the designation would deprive Maine residents the ability to exercise final authority over land use near rivers where salmonrun.
Even the rivers of the Kola peninsula, so heavily promoted by American and British travel companies, now seem under threat, with biologists estimating that poachers kill up to 50% of the salmonrun on the Kola River and as much as a third on the Umba, Kharlovka and Rynda.
The finding could provide an important clue in sorting through the complex reasons for the general decline of Northwest salmon runs, although the Hanford's wild fall chinook run is among the healthiest.
But because factories were allowed to -- allowing warm water to run back into the river, the temperature was becoming too high for the salmon to survive.