West coast salmon recovery

[SAJ-99]

You’re exactly right, that’s a huge one. Not just commercial fishing, also regulatory capture by corporate interests which can, and does, result in habitat destruction, pollution, unenforced regulations, hot water, no water, no fish passage, etc etc.

I guess my point was is we know how to fix a lot of the problems, just don't want to pay what it takes to do it.

 

[Hydrophilic]

I guess my point was is we know how to fix a lot of the problems, just don't want to pay what it takes to do it.

Yep. One of many examples of that is Idaho refusing fish passage at Hells canyon.

https://species.idaho.gov/wp-conten... Policy,licensing (2019 Settlement Agreement).

I really admired what Mike Simpson was trying to with the snake river dams. Heck, I really admire anyone who tries to do anything to help. I called this in the other week, big gas leak into this drain.

 

[Irrelevant]

I don't think fresh water habitat is even a blip on the problem. It's out in the salt. We need more (some?) enforcement out there

 

[R.K.]

I don't think fresh water habitat is even a blip on the problem. It's out in the salt. We need more (some?) enforcement out there

Problem is, the fishery advisory board for Alaska is appointed, and the majority of the seats represent factory trawlers. And trawling is the biggest problem.

Sure, there’s foreign vessels that operate there illegally, but the majority are owned and docked in Seattle. This problem could be solved rather quickly, but nobody really wants to deal with it.

This is leaving out the salmon flu issues in Fraser River/ BC from salmon farming adjacent to salmon staging areas, causing upwards of 90% pre-spawn wild fish mortality in some years.