In addition to green groups, this lawsuit was also filed by sport and commercial fishermen who depend on healthy wild salmon runs to make their income. It doesn't make sense that the fishermen are the only ones who have to sacrifice here -- why not the federal dams that keep increasing the numbers of fish they kill every year? It's unfair that fishermen and fishing guides are losing their jobs and while it's still business-as-usual for the dams, especially the four outdated ones on the Lower Snake River. The fish just aren't making it past those things, no matter how much taxpayer money is wasted on fish ladders and trucks. Last year, only four Snake River sockeye made it past those dams to their spawning headwaters in Redfish Lake, Idaho. The Bushies have abandoned fishermen.

The salmon are making it past the Snake River dams. In fact look at two watersheds adjoining each other and one is healthier than the other. One runs leaves the Columbia River and heads into the Blue Mountains. The other which happens to even be healthier continues up the Snake River through two dams and then into the Blue Mountains and this run has a lot more returning salmon and they must contend with at least 50 more miles of river and two additional "outdated" dams. The dams on the Snake River have some of the most state of the art technology found in the world to pass fish.

If you are worried about Sockeye salmon returning to Redfish Lake then maybe you need to talk to Idaho and their past actions of poisoning them out to clear the lake of them. That also had a large impact on the numbers so not all blame can be placed on the dams.