I'd like to thank both Duncan Marshall of the Federal Government of Canada's Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and James Chambers, of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Chief Scientists Office [NOAA is Part of their Dept. of Commerce], in Washington, DC for sending information on, respectively, socio-economic impacts of dams and impacts of fisheries of water development. WORKS DEALING WITH SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACTS Michael Harvey, Sept. 1984. "Impacts of Hydro Projects on Indian Lands in Western Canada - Indian Strategies". Lyndhurst Environmental Management Consultants, Sherwood Park, Alberta. ******** The Tritschler Commission of Inquiry's Report, 1980 or 1981. Published by the Manitoba Queen's Printer, it constitutes a devestating chronicle of a mega project out-of-control, specifiaclly Manitoba Hydro's gross mismanagement of the Construction of the Churchill River Diversion and Lake Winnipeg Regulation Project. ************** An excellent Annotated Bibliography was prepared by the University of British Columbia's School of Commnuity Planning in 1993. It lists papers dealing with many canadian mega-projects that have had adverse socio-economic impacts on local peoples, in particular First Nations groups. --------------------------------------------------------------- COASTAL FISHERIES IMPACTS James R. Chambers, "Coastal Degradation and Fish Population Losses", Proc. of the 14th Annual Marine Recreational Fish Sympoium, Mar. 7-9, 1991, Baltimore, MD. Published in "Stemming the Tide of Coastal Fish Habitat Loss (1992). R.H. Stroud (ed.), Proceedings of Marine Recreational Fisheries Symposium (14:45-51) by the National Coalition for Marine Conservation, Savannah, GA. This paper is part of an excellent compendium which includes a superb review paper by Michael A Rozengurt, "Alterations to Freshwater Flows". It details numerous examples from around the world of dams and reservoirs surprising impacts on coastal, estuarine and delta fisheries and ecosystems. ************** James R. Chambers, "Strengthen Habitat Protection To Rebuild US Marine Fisheries and Restore Coastal Ecosystem Health". Draft: 1994 or 1995. Here is are 2 excerpts from this paper: "Alteration of flows by means of dams or diversions can be the single most important factor influencing the health of many riverine and estuarine ecosystems and can elminate populations of species dependant upon rivers for reproduction. Columbia and Snake River Basin salmon and steelhead, which now number about 1 million wild fish, have declined by 90-94% from estimated historic levels of 10-16 million spawners (from NPPC 1986). Two thirds of the Columbia and Snake River Basins, which was accessible to salmon and steelhead, has been blocked by the construction of 55 major dams and a large number of smaller dams. The American Fisheries Society estimates that as many as half of the original Pacific salmon races have been lost and of those 214 remaining, 101 are at risk of extinction, 58 are at moderate risk, and 54 are of special concern (Nehlsen et. al 1991)." ..... "On March 1, 1994, the Institute for Fisheries Resources, the East Coast Fisheries Federation and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associationsjointly released a report to Congress and to the Secretary of Commerce, entitled "Marine Fishery Habitat Protection" (IFR, 1994). It pointed out that "The nation's 65 billion dollar commercial and sport fisheries have been put at risk as a result of continuing destruction of fish habitat in the nation's rivers, estuaries, and coastal ecosystem. This destruction has led to billions of dollars in lost revenue to the nation, lost employmnent, lost food production and lost recreational activities."