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  • Wild Salmon And Tribal Fish Destruction

    George Wuerthner

    Hatcheries are death on wild salmon. Photo George Wuerthner  The Indian Iron Curtain surrounds wild salmon and tribal policy and fishery management. Nearly every tribe in the Pacific Northwest says things like “salmon are sacred,”  and they typically assert that salmon are critical to their culture. The problem is that while there is some overlap…

  • Hatch-22: The Problem with the Pacific Salmon Resurgence

    Ken Cole

    More salmon but more of them are of hatchery origin The proportion of hatchery versus wild Pacific salmon has risen to 1 in 5 with an overall production of 5 billion smolts produced annually, up from just 500 million in 1970. There are problems which stem from this. For imperiled salmon, the competition and genetic…

  • Federal biologists say that cutting hatchery production could help protect wild salmon

    Ken Cole

    It is an argument for removing dams as well. For many years biologists have known that hatchery fish effect the fitness of wild fish through competition and interbreeding. Hatchery fish don’t have the selective pressures that wild fish do so are less fit to survive in the wild. Because of this, when hatchery fish breed…

  • Judge faults gov't plan to save Pacific NW salmon

    Ken Cole

    U.S. District Court Judge James A. Redden tells Federal Government to come up with backup plan to breach dams. Judge faults gov’t plan to save Pacific NW salmon Associated Press The four dams on the lower Snake River, Lower Granite Dam, Little Goose Dam, Lower Monumental Dam, and Ice Harbor Dam, were originally built for…

  • Silent Fall: B.C.’s vanishing wild salmon means trouble for all

    Ralph Maughan

    This will certainly take down the great bears and orca– The irony is that B.C. did not dam its salmon streams like the United States did. Silent Fall. Posted By: Chris Genovali. B.C.’s vanishing wild salmon means trouble for all. Monday Magazine. . . . more Saving Wild Salmon, in Hopes of Saving the Orca.…

  • Indian tribes make a billion dollar deal on salmon. Idaho's tribes did not participate

    Ralph Maughan

    4 tribes agree to settlement on restoring salmon runs. By Hal Bernton. Seattle Times. Environmentalists: Agreements won’t save salmon. Deals reached with Idaho and Northwest tribes provide funding for habitat work. By Greg Stahl. Idaho Mountain Express. Related, the presidential candidates on dams and salmon. Candidates not ready to take sides on salmon, dams. By…

  • Salmon Farming May Doom Wild Populations, Study Says

    Ralph Maughan

    Salmon Farming May Doom Wild Populations, Study Says. By Juliet Eilperin and Marc Kaufman. Washington Post Staff Writers. Salmon farms spread disease and sea lice among wild populations.

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