Introducing salmon cost 60 mill?
Will the salmon get their own smart phones and $1200 each?
That is probably the cost of deepening the channels... the river was silted over in gold rush days... it’s long been a goal to deepen the channels of the Feather and Yuba Rivers... Not only will that help in restoring habitat it will make river navigation more attractive for river boats, etc..
If they are African salmon, reparations worth millions
Introducing salmon cost 60 mill? Will the salmon get their own smart phones and $1200 each?
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Buying the eyed eggs and planting them in a new hatchery might cost $5 million. $10,000 for the starter eggs and the rest for the hatchery facility.
Another $5 million goes to explaining that birds, seals, sea lions love to eat salmon going down the river and returning. So most of the first release never returned 4 years later. And that’s why they need another 60 million - to tied them over a few 8 year cycles
Oh what happened to the other 50 mil? The usual - salaries, administrative overhead, marble toilets in the hatchery offices, vacations, international fact finding tours, gourmet meals in the lunch room cooked by 5 star chefs - all the necessary stuff you understand.