After 20 years and $1 billion spent on Washington state salmon programs, fish still declining, new r

[wildmanyeah]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattl...rograms-fish-still-declining-new-report-says/

After 20 years and $1 billion spent on Washington state salmon programs, fish still declining, new report says

http://www.islandssounder.com/news/...-funded-at-only-16-percent-of-estimated-need/

State’s New Report Shows Salmon Still Declining: Recovery Projects Funded at Only 16 Percent of Estimated Need

 

[Whole in the Water]

Very sad, but not surprising. For salmon to come back in large numbers there needs to be a societal and than political change in how we view and interact with the environment. The bottom line IMHO is we need to seriously limit the amount and type of development and use that goes on in the entirety of salmon bearing watersheds to see salmon numbers significantly increase to the numbers they historically used to be. We also need to reduce negative environmental and harvesting impacts once the salmon are in saltwater. Then there is the global issue of climate change that could trump all our efforts to restore salmon populations - a very tough nut to crack.

All this will involve a lot of stakeholders coming onboard together and it will cost many sectors and society as a whole financially. Without these sacrifices and limits the more population and development increases the less salmon we will have in general. Just need to look at the what happened to the salmon historically on the east coast of NA or in western Europe to understand this.

IMHO our society needs to decide if it wants large, healthy populations of wild salmon, or not. If we do, we all need to roll up our sleeves and work towards this and be willing to pay the costs of having lots of wild salmon, because in a world with almost 8 billion humans (and growing) salmon don't come easy or cheap anymore. My 2 bits.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Very sad, but not surprising. For salmon to come back in large numbers there needs to be a societal and than political change in how we view and interact with the environment. The bottom line IMHO is we need to seriously limit the amount and type of development and use that goes on in the entirety of salmon bearing watersheds to see salmon numbers significantly increase to the numbers they historically used to be. We also need to reduce negative environmental and harvesting impacts once the salmon are in saltwater. Then there is the global issue of climate change that could trump all our efforts to restore salmon populations - a very tough nut to crack.

All this will involve a lot of stakeholders coming onboard together and it will cost many sectors and society as a whole financially. Without these sacrifices and limits the more population and development increases the less salmon we will have in general. Just need to look at the what happened to the salmon historically on the east coast of NA or in western Europe to understand this.

IMHO our society needs to decide if it wants large, healthy populations of wild salmon, or not. If we do, we all need to roll up our sleeves and work towards this and be willing to pay the costs of having lots of wild salmon, because in a world with almost 8 billion humans (and growing) salmon don't come easy or cheap anymore. My 2 bits.

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