I'm sure some enviro group...

[Salmonhawk]

...will try to make a bigger issue out of this story and try to use it as a reason to stop clipping fish.

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/i ... salmo.html

The fish can't navigate in turbulent water?

[Nelly]

I would have to say that it would be premature to accept these findings as gospel.
It's a interesting aspect but until this researchers work has been duplicated by others studying similar aspects of salmonid life history, its hardly a bullet.

Overall, when you consider dams, seals, sea lions, terns, cormorants, over fishing and poor land use practices,... clipping an adipose fin.... please