The future for south Puget Sound whales depends on good decisions. Recovery of wild salmon is arrogantly being ignored, especially special interest groups.
Work projects for fish habitats and environments are simply are not working.
Many of the same people trying with our Governor will waste our money on it. Even with no success, we are forced to do more of it.
This is not what we need. There will be no more fish in a short time. Spawning salmon have stayed at low levels too long.
Success with hatchery fish could build sustainable abundance. We must use them for us and whales.
Rebuilding returns will take manual effort to rid meaningless dysfunctional problems. Salmon can be fixed using direct approaches, not myths. Use our hatchery fish however needed, but leave some to spawn in nature.
Remove the barriers of rigid and restrictive genetics that killed future fish by discarding or not hatching eggs and culling surplus adults in hatcheries. How does killing and wasting help?
Going all in on a selective fish has proven futile. Those who back it are harming more than helping.
We are no longer in a “back when” nature.
We need a new way to keep fish as a retainable and reliable food source. We can be selective only after achieving success. We have the cart in front of the horse. Being wrong for decades has arrived and courts may have to decide again and do some heavy lifting. Hopefully, our legislators will be influenced and Federal regulators can work and stop this pain. Costs to fix salmon with hatchery fish would be saving money but our heads are in the way.
