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To: calcowgirl

How will this effect Bigfoot?


4 posted on 11/20/2008 2:45:17 AM PST by Oratam
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To: Oratam; calcowgirl
It will devastate the remaining Bigfoot population. They do most of their fishing just below the dams where the Salmon are waiting in line to enter the multi-million dollar fish ladders. Bigfoot, I fear, will be doomed forever.

The real reason that the Salmon are declining is that the local Indian tribes are allowed to use gill nets at the mouth of the river. They claim it as an ‘ancestral right’ to harvest the Salmon as the forefathers did. The problem is that they do not use the same method of weaving tree roots etc. together to make nets then swim across the river dragging the heavy net risking being drowned in the rapid current. The new method is to back up their new 4WD to the river's edge and shoot a rocket-propelled net to the other side, sit down and have some beers and winch the net in at the end of the day. Then off to market, sell your take and go to McDonalds and stop for more beers. Few Salmon escape this high-tech manner of “fishing”, therefore fewer make it to their spawning areas.

11 posted on 11/20/2008 5:26:58 AM PST by panaxanax ( "Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those that don't." T.Jefferson)
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