Salmon Alert: Contact Diane Feinstein right now!

Senator Feinstein is proposing an amendment to a federal jobs stimulus bill that, in effect, would suspend rules that protect salmon from being killed by the giant diversion pumps in the San Francisco-San Joaquin Delta and would pump more water from the estuary. Feinstein claims that this amendment will bring jobs to California.  But, the closure of the western salmon fisheries has cost 23,000 jobs and $1.4 billion in the California economy.

Call Senator Dianne Feinstein today to stop her from dismantling the Endangered Species Act’s (ESA) basic protections for California’s endangered chinook (also known as king) salmon. The Pacific Fisheries Management Council has just released numbers showing California’s once abundant salmon runs came in at a new all time record low in 2009. As a result, regulators closed all ocean fishing of chinook salmon in California and most of Oregon in 2008 and 2009 to save the salmon.

Call Senator Feinstein and ask her to stop killing salmon and the $1.4 billion fishing economy. Ask her not to put an amendment in the jobs legislation that would increase pumping from the Delta!

http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.WashingtonDCOffice

Here are some key points to make:

• Tell them your name and city in California
• Ask her not to put an amendment in the jobs legislation that would increase pumping from the Delta. Tell them that suspending Endangered Species Act protections could be the end of the west coast salmon fishery, which supports thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.