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Agency: Restrict three pesticides to aid salmon (Corvallis Gazette-Times)

GRANTS PASS — Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that kill salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don’t reach streams, federal biologists ruled Tuesday.

US biologists: 3 common pesticides harm salmon (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that harm salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don't reach streams, federal biologists ruled Tuesday.

To protect salmon, restrictions placed on three pesticides (Seattle Times)

Farmers along the entire West Coast and as far inland as Idaho face extensive new restrictions on three popular pesticides in the name of protecting salmon.

Dubai hotel party costing £20m flies in face of recession (Evening Standard)

PARTYING like there's no tomorrow, the wealthy and glamorous gathered in Dubai for a credit crunch-defying, £20 million celebration of the opening of the world's most expensive hotel.

US biologists: 3 common pesticides harm salmon (The State)

Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that harm salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don't reach streams, federal biologists ruled Tuesday. Acting under terms of a lawsuit brought by anti-pesticide groups and salmon fishermen, NOAA Fisheries Service issued findings under the Endangered Species Act that chemicals malathion, ...

US biologists: 3 common pesticides harm salmon (The Charlotte Observer)

(By JEFF BARNARD, Associated Press Writer) Farms and orchards that continue to use three pesticides that harm salmon will have to greatly expand buffer zones around their fields so the chemicals don't reach streams, federal biologists ruled Tuesday. Acting under terms of a lawsuit brought by anti-pesticide groups and salmon fishermen, NOAA Fisheries Service issued findings under the Endangered ...

Chum salmon strike back (Tacoma News Tribune)

The tide had just started to fall, and big, hook-jawed, olive-and-magenta fish leaped from Kennedy Creek.