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Klamath Basin Fishes : Argument is No Substitute for Evidence

20 Fisheries | www.fisheries.org | vol 28 no 3 Cooperman and Markle (2003, this issue) have unfavorably reviewed an Interim Report prepared by the National Research Council’s Committee on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin (NRC 2002). Their review relates to the committee’s treatment of a Biological Assessment prepared by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBOR) in 2001 and a Biological Opinion prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 2001 for the shortnose (Chasmistes brevirostris) and Lost River suckers (Deltistes luxatus) of the Klamath basin. Both the Biological Assessment and the Biological Opinion focus on potential effects of the USBOR’s Klamath Project on the endangered suckers. The NRC committee currently is working on its Final Report, which is scheduled for release in 2003. The committee’s Final Report will extend beyond the operation of the Klamath Project to consider all factors that might be relevant to the future welfare of the endangered suckers. Because the Final Report is not finished, the present response to the article by Cooperman and Markle deals only with the Interim Report. Members of the NRC committee are William M. Lewis, Jr., chair, University of Colorado; Richard M. Adams, Oregon State University; Ellis B. Cowling, North Carolina State University; Eugene S. Helfman, University of Georgia; Charles D. D. Howard, consulting engineer; Robert J. Huggett, Michigan State University; Nancy E. Langston, University of Wisconsin; Jeffrey F. Mount, University of California—Davis; Peter B. Moyle, University of California—Davis; Tammy J. Newcomb, University of Michigan; Michael L. Pace, Institute for Ecosystem Studies; and J. B. Ruhl, Florida State University.