Originally Posted By: freespool
Originally Posted By: salmon bake
We as humans don't always have an answer to everything, theories abound about everything. I do know one thing, coastal spring salmon are awesome. Siletz river is one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the u.s.. Especially when it has fish. When alaska commercials and canadian commercials have huge harvest quotas, oregon coastal chinook runs vaporize into thin air.


More words of wisdom from the fisheries short bus rider.
Oregon coastal stocks are a fraction of the pre settlement numbers.
You can't cut down nearly every tree in the coast range over a 100 year period and not impact all salmonic species.
The number one limiting factor on nearly every coastal basin is poor water quality, second is lack of large woody debris recruitment, followed by poor stream complexity.
These three factors can be laid at the feet of the timber harvesters, and their poor not fish friendly logging practices.
Building roads in critical fish habitat areas, insufficient riparian buffers, stream stabilization and zip zapping, which eliminates critical over wintering back channel/alcove habitat, lack of any structure in the estuary, all are critical life histories for salmonics, yet we do virtually nothing to correct it.


I wonder if the politicians who allow this are democrats or republicans. Are there any republicans in Oregon? Seems like youve been sold out. Now, should CCA make that a high priority or will you continue to fight them at every turn on that issue as well?