Originally posted by grandpa:
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So, in conclusion, to single out hatcheries as the villain is wrong. I think we can find a solution but not overnight or even in our life times..Even if we closed all the hatcheries and stopped fishing tomorrow we would not succeed. Stop all logging , breach all the dams and halt development statewide and still the wild fish runs would not be as robust as in 1855. I would say, however, that one good way to prevent the fish from disappearing would be to stop killing them. Until we figure it out we mitigate the damage.
Grandpa: I very often disagree with you. I usually don't bother to respond, but in this case we are close to agreement. We wiill not stop tribal abuses in this climate, and we seem to do too little, too late about the other commercial fishermen, and we all know the loggers own our politicians. But . . if hatcheries are killing our wild salmon. I said IF. IF we learn from solid science that current hatchery practices are killing wild salmon we must stop doing what we are doing. IF there is no way to modify hatchery practices short of closing them we must close them.
I am not convinced that closing the hatcheries is the answer, but if they are killing wild salmon that is not my idea of mitigation.
And while I think WT may be a bit extream, I beleive tha change sometimes will come only from extream measures. (i.e. civil right marches, womens suffarage protests, etc. etc.) Perhaps the outcome of the WT litigation will be to force the hatchery practices WT advocates.
We may not fully resrtore wild salmon in our lifetimes but we can damn sure wipe them out in the blink of an eye.
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