Indeed! We are spending hundreds of millions to save the salmon runs! The fish must first pass through hundreds of cross river nets set by the local tribes... THEN are herded into the fish ladders at Bonneville Dam where they are easy prey for the seals...insane!
Set a demarcation zone at East Portland. Any seal that passes past that mark should be culled, with bounties placed on their heads! The fur and meat should go to the tribes, or as pissant said, to feed the prisons.
They speculate four percent is eaten by the seals at Bonneville... they won't admit that more than triple that is harvested by the tribes on the way there!
Sanction the Nets... and Cull the Seals!
“Sanction the Nets... and Cull the Seals!”
I was living in WA when that dolt Boldt ruled that the words “in common with” meant that the tribes were entitled to 50% of the fish stocks.
I used to fish the Nooksack River, and catching 6-7 lb silvers was common. Sea run Cutthroats were averaging about 3 lbs, and it was nothing to fill a Steelhead card throught the winter.
Within 5 years of the “Boldt Decision” Silvers were averaging less than 3 lbs, sea run cuts were hardly being caught and you couldn’t hardly catch a steelhead.( about 100-150 hrs of hard fishing to even hook one.)
Of course it was all blamed on the loggers clear cutting the hills, which may have had some impact, but when you went down to the res, all you could see was nets, strung 3/4 of the way across the river, and staggered so nothing could get past that couldn’t squirt through the nets.
Some of the nets were left unattended for days and the fish just rotted in them.