Very ironic since the salmon stocks have collapsed at least as far north as the Columbia River - only 300 Columbia River Spring Chinook have returned this year. The entire "salmon recovery" effort has been a ridiculous sham, another way for the Bush Gang to divert taxpayer money to cronies and supporters. And everyone has played, from the large NGOs to the tribes and local governments. As one Colville Confederated Tribes elder told a local community meeting a couple of years ago here in the Okanogan Valley, "We don't give a f**k about the fish.  We want the money."

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.
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Full disclosure - I'm a co-author, but we donated our work, so I get nothing from sales of the book.