A must watch to better understand the genetic implications for wild spring chinook conservation and recovery.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-lost-salmon-8hjf4t/

11/17/2022

Doc, thanks for posting the following, I watched but didn't think to post, Duh me!!!!

Definitely Shane Anderson's best film achievement to date. He just keeps getting better at telling stories about fish through his film work.

Excellent film. learned a lot about the diversity between Spring and Fall chinook.

11/18/2022



Thanks for saying that.......It is interesting that in Region 6, in my 50+ years here, that all the work done is to do things for the Fall Chinook, mmmmmm wonder why that is ?????? Surely couldn't have anything to do, timing wise, with Charter boat, tribal, and NT commercial fishing ??????????

I remember the days when the Hoh, the Queets, other Forks area rivers, and even the Chehalis had sport fishable runs of Spring Salmon.

Duh, then some people want to build a Dam on the upper Chehalis, duh, how stupid is stupid??????

Spring Chinook were an accounting problem. Conservation-wise, most were taken, at least back in the 80s, in dispersed hook and line fisheries. Plus, they were (relatively) rare back then, compared to co-mingled Falls. Closing a marine mixed stock fishery for a relatively "few" Springs did not make economic sense.

If we ever get to the "no marine mixed stock fisheries" coastwide, then the springs will have a good chance.

Aye, there's the rub!

It is. But it's just the beginning because they will need food and not be bycatch in trawl fisheries, and so on. We don't want any resource whose continued presence causes us inconvenience.

Long live the springers!

I agree, Salmo. Amazing footage and a compelling story. I heard he's making a film about the removal of the Klamath dams too. If so, I look forward to that.

I've also heard there is a springer ESA petition coming for the coastal region. Who knows if its just a rumour or not.

If it is Region 6 will be busy with that and the steelhead petition!