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A bad reputation is hard to shake. The Department of Fish and Game is finding that out, particularly in the Kern River Valley, as it shops around its environmental review documents on stocking the river with fish. The department was sued in 2006 by the Pacific Rivers Council and Center for Biological Diversity because it had never done an EIR on how fish stocking affects native species. A Sacramento Superior Court judge agreed with the plaintiffs and ordered Fish and Game to do an EIR by Dec. 30, 2008. The department couldn’t meet the deadline (that was Strike One to a lot of Kern River Valley folks) and asked for an extension, which they got, but at a price. All stocking of fish in water that held certain “species of concern,” as outlined by the plaintiffs, had to stop. Yup, you guessed it, one of those species of concern was wriggling around in the waters of the Kern River — the hard head minnow. So stocking in the Kern ended a year ago this month....
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