Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 27 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/4551160a
Salmon study sparks row over dams
Results dismissing link to fish mortality are called into question.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email webadmin@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
Unfortunately, the original PLoS Biology press release on our paper was not seen by any of the authors until several days after it?s release. We disagreed both with the title and some of the text in the release, and felt it misrepresented the conclusions and relevance of the paper. To PLoS Biology?s credit, when we contacted them they immediately rescinded the original release and issued a revised press release addressing our concerns. The new version does not state that dams have no effect on salmon survival, which was not what our paper stated?our paper showed that salmon survival in the Snake-Columbia R system was about the same in the Fraser River during the period of our study. We specifically noted in our paper that much work had been done to improve salmon survival at the dams over a 30-yr period. The statement that dams do not affect salmon survival is incorrect and misrepresented the conclusions in our paper. A follow-up note from the editors of PLoS Biology in response to our comment can be seen here: http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=read-response&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060265#r2416 David Welch, Kintama Research.