A few years ago, they said Global Warming was going to kill all the Salmon off
B.C.'s sockeye salmon may not survive climate warming: Study
The rising temperatures on the Frazer are due to Canadian aluminum smelters not any globul warming crap. The smelters return their waste heated water to the river, killing returning and downward migrating sockeye salmon by the 100Ks. This has been going on since the late 80s. And became apparent in the 90s to everyone concerned.
Historically, the Frazer runs were virtually killed off when a railroad slide blocked the river. For the following 60 years, both American and Canadian commercial salmon fishermen scarified their catches to allow more then needed fish to return and paid a hefty tax per pound on caught fish to support and expand the Frazer river hatcheries run by a non-political organization, which regulated the number and timing of harvest for both parties.
As a result of the “Boldt Decision” and the subsequent 1979 SCOTUS “Washington Passenger Vessel vs US” decision, the Treaty Tribes won the right to take Frazer salmon according to the amount they decided in unprecedented numbers, thus destroying the 60 year compact and the viability of the fishery.
Thus began the rise of Treaty Tribes and Special Masters over all seafood resources, the relegation of non-Treaty individuals (all other US citizens) to second class citizenship, and with the flow of special rights and Indonesian capital came the beginning of the now ever-present nationwide Indian casinos ...
Some years later, the Canadian government withdrew from the compact after the US government refused to pay its agreed share. The non-political organization. IPSFC in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, was disbanded. The Canadian Department of Fisheries, based in Montreal, Canada, took over management on its usual political basis and the runs began a major decline.
The upshot was:
US Pacific North West commercial salmon fishermen had their mainstay fishery virtually eliminated;
US PNW commercial salmon fishermen were themselves mostly eliminated;
The better, more tribally politically connected Indian fishermen in the Treaty Tribes became briefly wealthy, but whose fortunes sharply declined as Montreal’s political management and resource cutbacks increased;
Consumer sockeye salmon prices began a steep rise;
Montreal began a campaign to place blame for their Frazer River failures on everyone and anything ... and the now fashionable globul warming;
The dream of retuning Frazer River sockeye from the few 100k, after the slide, to its historic numbers of 60-80 million annually returning sockeye to a dream remembered by only a few.
This was a major victory for the Left and for the Statists, a major defeat for individual liberty and the US Constitution.