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I would have to wonder what impact trawling and high seas fishing has on any salmon stocks, By this I am asking, If you drag everything off the bottom in a 100 acre area, what have you done to the food chain. You pointed to habitat loss and destruction on land. What about habitat loss and destruction in the water? I am not familiar with what the fish eat out on the high seas, but I do know in the sound blackmouth are bottomfeeders. And that trawling and other fisheries do have an effect on other links in the food chain(herring). I have a hard time believing that the high seas fishing fleets have no or very little effect on salmon returns. As your wording states that there is no interception of WA salmon on the high seas, I am curious...
Hopefully we can have some dialogue without turning this into the slugfest so typical here,