Wednesday, August 13, 2008

A real fish story

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I just returned on Sunday from another summer in Alaska, making nets for commercial fishermen in Bristol Bay, the largest sustainably managed sockeye fishery in the world. I was there when I learned that the Lower Columbia River fishery was closed in May to avoid breaching the minimum salmon stocks required by the Endangered Species Act.

I was quite shocked to read the cover story "Here come the red fish." It perhaps should have been called "Columbia and Snake finally dammed." The article states that this year's successful Salmon River run is attributed to the 180,000 smolt hatched and released by biologists in 2006. Although I'm sure the biologists would love the credit, the truth is that numbers of returning Columbia and Snake River Salmon have finally become so low that the ESA closed commercial, sport and tribal fishing for the first time since it was passed in 1992. The real success may not be so easily explained.

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