Posted on 08/03/2006 7:27:46 AM PDT by Uncledave
... Salmon.
As an avid fisherman, I have found it difficult to support fishing groups because they get taken over by idiotic environMENTALists who can't understand the balance between their personal desire for great fishing, and the need for water, power, and recreation for boaters and lake fishers.
There are people who claim that salmon used to spawn up beyond Auburn in the North Fork of the American...that may be true, but given there is a hatchery at Nimbus that produces much higher yields than a river would, I fail to see the issue.
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