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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Swinomish may sue over tide gates
The Swinomish Tribe yesterday announced it plans to sue over the use of gates that block salmon from Skagit County estuaries.
Tide gates are used largely by farmers to keep salt water out of farmland that abuts Puget Sound. The tribe notified one of the 12 Skagit County diking districts, elected bodies that regulate the use of the gates, that in 60 days it could be sued.
The suit in federal court could be averted, tribal officials said, if the parties reach an agreement over the gates that are barring threatened chinook salmon from inland waterways on Fir Island.
The tribe could take action under the Endangered Species Act, arguing that the barriers are harming the fish and therefore illegal.
After the Columbia River, the Skagit River has the state's second-largest wild salmon runs. This year legislators approved a law supporting the use of tide gates.
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