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Letter: Fish policies lead to extinction

By Larry R. Carey, Vancouver
Published: November 19, 2021, 6:00am

Methods for sustaining salmon are losing ground. If salmon identity remains unmarked, then how do we define it? Genetic impurity is evolving intensely. Squandering out of fish stocking leaves decaying fragments, tearing away at the resource. With 162 million fewer hatchery smolts per year since 2008, the population has been dictated by NOAA. Rivers are deserts after overharvesting of wild stocks left too few selective fish. Orcas starve and NOAA with the Pacific Fisheries Management Council learn nothing, still providing indiscriminate commercial allocations.

NOAA genetic dilution is out of control. Wild fish are spawning with stray or unknown stocks. Habitat projects lack improvement because they prevent planting fish there. Wild stocks are still being harvested. Our conservation fish here is killed in Canada or Alaska and sold back to us. Wild fish purity is impossible, hatcheries are being squandered, and NOAA’s resistance to natural fish is a trifecta of death. NOAA: salmon are frozen in your fist and in a selective sham. Dam removal or harvest removal: choose one? Age and size under your guidelines are mowed down. NOAA science prevents salmon even living in nature before the harvest is killing them by insanity.

Give the NOAA a skull and crossbones trophy!

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