In exchange for four Native tribes dropping lawsuits, the Bush administration will spend $900 million over the next decade to help out Northwest salmon. The settlement reached Monday ends, for the time being, a decades-long legal battle over the best balance of tribal and commercial fishing rights, protection for salmon, and regional power demands in the Columbia River basin. The new plan does not affect four hydroelectric dams on the basin's Snake River, which environmentalists have long insisted must be torn down if salmon are going to see any benefit. The dam question will likely crop up again in early May, when the Bush administration brings a third try at a salmon-protecting plan to a district judge who has rejected two previous offerings as not protective enough.
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caniscandida Posted 4:59 pm
08 Apr 2008
The upriver Nez Perce in Idaho are none too pleased, either. How many salmon actually make it up the Snake River to where they live?
And $900 million over ten years, split among four tribes, is after all not a lot of money. So what really is in it for the four tribes who went along with this deal?
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salmoncenter Posted 11:29 pm
08 Apr 2008
There is a great book, SALMON 2100, which details a lot of the failures and offers creative, innovative solutions. The book comes from a project sponsored by EPA and the American Fisheries Society and headed by Dr. Robert T. Lackey with chapters written by 36 leading fisheries and community experts and included several well-attended conferences. When AFS saw the direction the project took, it was buried. The book could not be bought except by special order for about the first year after publication. When there were complaints, the book was listed on the AFS in-house online store, but Amazon still has only a few copies priced from $199.92 even though it's a 39.00 book if you can find it.
Buy the Book Salmon 2100 Project
Full disclosure - I'm a co-author, but we donated our work, so I get nothing from sales of the book.
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usandthem Posted 9:54 pm
13 Apr 2008
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caniscandida Posted 10:53 pm
13 Apr 2008
Thinking of animals as a "resource" is NOT a sustainable way to live.
There is NO "sustainability," if animal rights are not fundamental.
Got that, SpaSh?
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