Marty'
Thanks for the links to this interesting information. I also appreciate the fish news links on your website. The more informed we become, the better it will be for fishing in the long run.
It looks like farming salmon in net pen has created a whole new set of problems for Pacific salmon and steelhead. Just the other day I read an article about a krill fishery in the Straits of Georgia. Krill are used by the salmon farms as a feeding stimulant. The worry is that this fishery is taking food from wild salmon and other fish. There is such a high demand for krill by the salmon farms that the Cargil Corp. is plannig fishing operations in the former Antartica whaling grounds. This article is at www.anglingbc.com/davesreport/dave.html
The last quote in the article about John Volpe says it all, "the biggest problem facing Pacific salmonoid stocks is our own ignorance and continuing acceptance of its prominent role in defining natural resource policy."