Debbie Dingell: “It may well be that that is so, but the hard fact of the matter is that the Fish and Wildlife Service uses them for fish…”

“It may well be that that is so, but the hard fact of the matter is that the Fish and Wildlife Service uses them for fish surveys in the Pacific Northwest, something that is extremely important. The salmon are now approaching the status of endangered species in the entire northwestern part of the United States. Without that particular use of volunteers for surveys on streams, and things of that kind, to count breeding populations and things of that kind and to identify reproduction, you are going to find a major threat to the salmon resource in the entire Western part of the United States. Now, why are we not including them?”