"These individuals were charged with developing information and measures necessary to restore anadromous fish in the lower Klamath River Basin," states biologist/scientist David Vogel.  "The factors that were referred to with regard to the declines in salmon were attributable to 8 causes:

1. Over fishing

2. Logging

3. The Trinity River Diversion , which is a transbasin diversion from Klamath Basin to  central valley in California

4. Irrigation Diversions in the lower Klamath Basin tributaries, not the mainstem but the tributaries

5. The 1964 Flood

7. Sea Lion predation

8. Brown Trout predation

"There's not a single mention in this extensive document, again a peer-reviewed document, that even mentions the Upper Klamath Basin or irrigation in the Klamath Project," states David Vogel. This document is the "Final Report Hoopa Valley Reservation Inventory of Reservation Waters Fish Rearing Feasibility Study and a Review of the History & Status of Anadromous Fishery Resources of the Klamath River Basin", prepared by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in March 1979.

"This other report is the 'Lower Klamath River Instream Flow Study', prepared by Donald Anglin, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in August of 1994. The Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs funded the study" relates Deb Crisp, Tulelake Growers Association executive director.

"It lists the two primary reasons for the decline in the anadromous fisheries as being ocean harvest and degradation of habitat in the tributaries to the Lower Klamath River. Once again, Klamath Project diversions are not mentioned, flows in the main stem are not identified as a limiting factor.

There is no empirical data that supports a relationship between Coho populations or populations of other salmonids and flow releases at Iron Gate Dam."

The previous quotes by David Vogel were obtained via videotaped interview  2001.