This whole Orca issue has to b looked at over the very (especially for a politician) long term. They live 50-100 years. Over that time, eating a part per billion PCB, or trillion, per day will eventually add up. That is a lot of pollutants that need to not only be not put into the Sound but must be taken out.

Assuming that they reproduce somewhat like humans without birth control (we'll ignore what's being flushed into the Sound now) a cow can probably produce between 5 and 10 calves over her life. If it is 5, only 2 need to reach adulthood for the population to be stable. We could easily have a decade of no successful calf production and that might not be "bad".

Too much of what we do is based on short-term views; we need to take a much longer view. Not only for the resources but for ourselves. If the Sound is getting uninhabitable for its long-term residents what does that say to us?