Backlash,
Your "simple graph" of adult returning fish is just that, SIMPLE. Which is the reason you believe pulling dams out will work. It's a "simple" explanation. You might want to check out the "simple graph" of ocean harvest before and after the dams were put in. Also, check out what little data there is on "bycatch". There is little data available because the government made rules for it but don't enforce them and have no idea how many salmon are killed and thrown overboard. Also, check out the way indians fished for salmon 60 years ago before the first dam was built, and how they fish for them now. It's a hell of a lot easier to catch salmon with a monofilament net strung halfway across the river in 100 yard increments up and down the Columbia River than it is to spear them at Celilo Falls. If the smolts weren't getting to the ocean, you would have NO SALMON by now. Salmon stocks are declining in almost every river, dams or no dams, all over the west coast. Lower Granite and Ice Harbor are not killing all these fish. WAKE UP!!! You have bought the propoganda campaign from the same government you are bitching about. Once you educate yourself on all of these issues, the answer will indeed be "SIMPLE".

[This message has been edited by backlash2 (edited 02-16-2000).]