The State - News from Aug. 21, 1987

Despite a threatened lawsuit, state Fish and Game Department officials plan to use the chemical rotenone to kill white bass in the Tulare Lake Basin because the fish poses a threat to salmon and striped bass in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system. George Nokes, a Fish and Game Department regional director, said in Fresno that only the white bass would be killed by the chemical. But the Tulare County Board of Supervisors has threatened to sue over the plan, set for next month, because the chemical would poison the water supply for the lake shore community of Three Rivers and kill other fish. Nokes said the amount of rotenone used in the $250,000 project would be so small, about 150 parts per billion, that it would pose no danger to humans.