How we killed off the giant salmon of the Pacific Northwest in 50 years

shiverfix said:

An interesting take on it. EDIT: You do have to get past the preachy beginning, but the information is interesting.

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shiverfix said:

An interesting take on it. EDIT: You do have to get past the preachy beginning, but the information is interesting.

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Admin said:

Natural abundance has its limits, especially when you dam the path to the breeding grounds-- as was the case with the giant Chinook salmon of the Pacific northwest. Seeing their enormous silvery forms leaping upriver is a miraculous sight in some of this archival footage, but a fish can’t leap over a 100-foot dam. The fish known as “june hogs” are no more.


What do you say?

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pinstriper said:

It would be interesting to know the impact of marine mammal protection and population growth in all this.

Also, not to pick a fight, but what evidence is there that the tribes had any kind of approach other than "catch every fish you can, salt and smoke for storage" ? I mean, was there a quota ? A management plan ? Tags ? Bag limits ?

The thing that kept the tribes from doing what the white man did was a lack of technology and industrial base/development, near as I can tell.

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