(April 19, 2017, 11:19 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Claims by environmental and sport fishing groups that federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in approving the use of fish hatcheries operated by a state and an Indian tribe to restore fish populations in a river were correctly dismissed by a federal court, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 18 (Wild Fish Conservancy, et al. v. National Park Service, et al., No. 14-35791, 9th Cir.)....