Larry, I don't dissagree, and I've only actually touched on one minor local issue that I am personally connected to, out of a thousand others that affect fish...

you ask what has changed? I say alot has changed... how many more housing developements and strip malls have been built in river drainages. How many more septic tanks have been built, lawns fertilized, roads paved and widened, and people to be fed? these are just the local challenges. To be honest, we cannot fix the fu(kups of the past as fast as we are fu(king up the present...

We've dammed all the major spawning grounds and diked all the estuaries to turn them into shipping ports and outfalls. We have upset the food chain by protecting predators, mass producing their food and harvesting natural food in order to feed the un-natural; even further upsetting what little we have allowed mother nature to sustain.

what is the future? who knows... but it would be a good idea to study the demise of Atlantic samlon for a glimpse at where we are headed in puget sound...

we're still lucky to have a few places that are still somewhat protected locally but even those aren't safe from the global issues of overharvest, predation, and poor ocean conditions...