The $68,000 Fish
The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest
Symmes, Patrick Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Year Published: 2019 First Published:
Resource Type: Article
On the attempted restoration of the salmon population in the Pacific Northwest for the purpose of salmon runs for harvest.
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This was less an attempt to restore salmon than an effort to alleviate the concerns of fisherman like me while claiming to address the broader crisis. The ulttimate prupose of salmon "restoration" efforts, in other words, is to keep anyone from noticing that salmon are not being restored. The dirty secret is that only about 2 percent of spending on "restoring" salmon actually flows diretly into restoring natural salmon runs. The rest is spent on mitigating losses by managing the river - its dams and infrastructure projects, even its navigation features such as buoys and docks - and by "supplementing" rivers year-round with fish.
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