Math is bad

Apparently salmon don't exist if you refuse to count them. According to the Washington Post, Craig zeroed out the funding for the Fish Passage Center, the research center tasked with tracking endangered fish in the Columbia River.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- In a surgical strike from Capitol Hill, Sen. Larry E.
Craig (R-Idaho) has eliminated a little-known agency that counts endangered fish
in the Columbia River.
The Fish Passage Center, with just 12 employees and a
budget of $1.3 million, has been killed because it did not count fish in a way
that suited Craig.

Apparently it's payback on behalf of hydroelectric interests.

Last summer, a federal judge in Portland, using data and analysis from the Fish
Passage Center, infuriated the utilities. He ordered that water be spilled over
federal dams in the Snake River to increase salmon survival. Shortly after Judge
James A. Redden issued his order, Craig began pushing to cut all funding for the
Fish Passage Center.

Craig seems to be quite the water-carrier for the hydroelectric industry - at the expense of our salmon:

Salmon math has clearly riled up Craig, who in his last election campaign in
2002 received more money from electric utilities than from any other industry
and who has been named "legislator of the year" by the National Hydropower
Association.