All the salmon advocacy groups I support were litigants in the law suit to force BPA to spill water, and that is arguably the single most effective recovery policy implemented thus far on the CR.
You mentioned higher power costs and habitat improvements being implemented in the name of recovery.
Sadly after $12 billion in recovery dollars being spent over two decades, none of the 13 listed stocks has recovered, two have decreased in population.
Yet you favor the failed status quo policies that have shown no recovery what so ever.
I'm advocating what independent fisheries scientists have been saying for years, remove the four lower Snake River dams, lower the John Day pool by 50ft, and maintain annual spring spill.
But unlike you, I don't give a rat's a$$ how much it costs, the government screwed the CR fishery up, now they need to pay for it.