Trout, the part of your post I agree with is that the apathy of sportsmen is pathetic.
The part I'm having a hard time with is the environmentalist part. Environmetalist is a pretty broad term and to suggest all environmentalists want to breach dams so salmon can be looked at in their natural environment is a real stretch. Are you suggesting the power companys are more concerned with recovering salmon runs to the point of havestable numbers than the environmentalists? From my veiw since the sportsmen are politically impotent, the only groups fighting for getting more fish into the rivers are the environmentalists and the tribes.