Have you been given an honest answer why the low Salmon returns or is it always "Climate change"?
Alaska is having the same problem - villagers have not been "allowed" to fish for their traditional food supply for years & guess what the real answer is?
Commercial fishing trawler by-catch. By law these ships have to discard all but the targeted species (Pollock usually, can't do without our Mc-D's fish sandwich). It's disgusting, while they claim "mid-water trawling is sustainable" the truth is they are plowing hard on the bottom killing everything including crab of all kinds, all fish they catch, halibut, salmon, Orca's, other whales, sea lions, seals etc. . . In addition the damage the nets cause to the bottom is akin to a 200+ yard wide plow completely roto tilling/destroying the ocean floor (it is observable from space!).
Politicians won't do anything about it because guess who's one of their biggest lobbyist doners?
The entire west coast would do well to recognize this & band together to ban it - They are fishing in Alaskan waters and not PNW because they have already cleaned that place out.
Oh, and Salmon are pelagic and the fish caught in Alaska now could very well be ones that might have spawned down there.
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this page is about Alaskan Trawlers and the damage they do. we are hear to learn and find a common answer to try to SAVE OUR WATERS. But in saying that...
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