Gold vs. Fish: A California Tale & Toronto Protesters in Court Today

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Produced by: 
KBOO
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Air date: 
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 12:00am
Boardman, California fish ban, mystery jobs and Hurricane Alex

Toronto prrotesters are spending the day in court...which is better that spending it in jail.  And since one's own home is no longer a safe haven, that option may be off the table, too.  At least one Toronto resident awoke to the barrel of a gun in the face.  And here I was all worked up about the 'sounic canon' ...

Californians have no trouble coming to Oregon to mine gold in our rivers and streams, thus fouling up important salmon spawning grounds on the way to El Dorado.  This, because California has stricter laws governing this the environmental rape involved in the game.  But when it comes down to actual fish, California sees things differently.   The Monterey Bay Aquarium's popular "Seafood Watch" guide is advising shoppers and commercial fish buyers to avoid wild-caught salmon from Oregon and California.  The aquarium says the population of salmon that originates in the Sacramento River and migrates into Oregon waters is too depleted to eat.   The change to the sustainable seafood guide, announced last week, tosses a stink bomb in the middle of the first commercial salmon fishing season off most of Oregon's coast in three years.  Ask them about the ‘New 49ers’.  See what they say...

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