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Judge won't guard fish farm from Grand Coulee flow

PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal judge on Friday refused to order a cut in flows from the Grand Coulee Dam that threaten millions of fish raised in pens downstream in the Columbia River.

U.S. District Judge James Redden in Portland rejected the bid of a major regional seafood company to link the protection of the farmed fish to that of wild fish considered in jeopardy under the Endangered Species Act.

He said the company hadn't shown that the management of the dam in Washington state to prevent flooding in cities downstream had put any wild fish at risk. The Endangered Species Act doesn't cover farmed fish.

Read the complete story by The AP at The Boston Globe.

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