BilletHead Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 What happened to Washington's wildlife after the largest dam removal in US history (engadget.com) FishnDave and grizwilson 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillback Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 It's great that they took out the Elwha dams, but after watching salmon recovery efforts for years in the PNW, you always have to factor in netting. When the Elwha dams came out there was already contention over who would harvest the fish even before a single salmon reached the upper river. Wild Chinook salmon fillets run $25 or more retail per pound, it is hard to keep people from catching them with that kind of payoff. Chinook from the Puget Sound rivers spend their adult lives off the Alaska coast and when they migrate home, they face commercial harvest off the coasts of Alaska and BC, plus recreational harvest. You can have the greatest habitat possible in the rivers, but you still need salmon to make it to the spawning gravel. I hope that sometime in the future it all works out and the salmon and steelhead runs return to where they were years ago. grizwilson, bfishn, BilletHead and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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