Has anyone watched this episode? I thought it was pretty informative the first time I viewed it, but Alan and his team didn't really draw any conclusions other than; the fish are declining rapidly and that there are many factors that contribute to the declining numbers.
He does a good job, however, of exploring how modern science is trying to at least get an understanding of how to best deal with it.

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1306/index.html

Is it bad for the fish or bad for the fisherman?

It is bad for the fishermen.

It's not that it's bad for wild fish. The problem is that closing hatcheries and fisheries won't recover wild fish. Wild fish recovery requires a very significant reduction in hydro system mortality. Although mentioned in Connaughton's speech, no specific action is prescribed for the number one factor relating to fish recovery in the Columbia.

The bushinator wants to keep the dams... at the cost of everything else.

End of story.

So what.. by the time any of this comes to anything Bush will not be the prez anymore. He has been in office 6 years now and not one thing has changed good or bad as far as fish goes. I expect that to stay the same through the next few administrations regardless of who they might be. Someone will make a statement, then another group will sue them, there will be a study, then a follow up study. A judge will make a ruling and somebody will sue him. After that there will be a conference or maybe a "summit" and more ideas and rulings followed by more law suites. A vast sweeping policy will be instated and a huge swarm of law suites will beat it down. BPA will get their power, the tribes will abuse their treaty rights, and you and I will go fishing.

Along the way, I'll push for WSR and anything else that is actually possible to help out the fish. If it was all C&R for everything all the time I would still go fishing.

Carefull.. somebody will sue you for saying that, and you will file a counter suite et al etc..

Seeing that the majority of the public does not fish but uses hydro electric power any politician is going to have trouble fowarding a plan to tear down the dams. Demand and Supply.

Sportman always seem to forget that the non using public and the fnece sitters control their fate we do not.

looks like the citizens of the US have chosen electricty over fish.