Instead, Kempthorne, along with a host of others who opposed breaching,
suggested other steps to recover salmon. Those include screens for
water
diversions that keep smolts and adults out of irrigation ditches;
installation of fish-friendly turbines known as minimum gap runners;
focusing more on conditions in the estuary and oceans where these fish
spend most of their lives; improving habitat; and ending predation
by
terns and marine mammals.
Kempthorne said Idaho would outline its …
