Salmo

We are right now spending many times more than the pure cost per pound at the commercial end to produce salmon and even more to save them. On the Columbia River with the money required of the power companies and other mitigation costs to keep the tribes happy we would be better off from a strictly economic standpoint to stop all efforts and write checks to the tribes. So it isn't just a simple economics issue. How much those Pinks cost to sustain or those Chums is not the point. What the commercials and tribes are selling these fish for is irrelevant. We are spending billions to try to pay back for what we have destroyed. Not the most desirable program but we can't go back to the 1800s without trimming our population and technology back by about 2/3.