Thread: QR Trivia 7/12

Tuesday, July 12, 2005,

Trivia #896. What type of fish, in Oregon and Washington, does the Bonneville Power Administration pay fisherman a bounty to catch in the Columbia River?
1) Sculpins
2) Salmon
3) Sturgeon
4) Squawfish
5) Steelhead

SOURCE: http://www.efw.bpa.gov/NEOHProfile.pdf

Hey! Dimitry, the owner of QR, says he's crediting #4 Squawfish as being correct today.

It's kinda confusing. According to this:

http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/BPAnews...1/nr071101.pdf

...the pikeminnow is a predator that eats salmon, which are endangered. That's why they pay the bounty on it. Pikeminnow isn't an option. But according to this: http://www.pikeminnow.org/

...the pikeminnow is what was formerly called the squawfish.


Becky