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Letter: Salmon can’t succeed

By Larry Carey, VANCOUVER
Published: August 24, 2024, 6:00am

Salmon are astonishing amid restrictions. We are confused helpers of salmon. Arrogant indulgers using more dead than alive saying it’s helpful. What? Watch them die off?

Mismanagement called it purposeful but deadly wrong downsized salmon. Tunnel-visioned atrocities from dictating powers spearheaded enhanced illusions and sensationalized predictions. Poor for salmon hasn’t changed. Bad parts of miscalculated guesswork replaced abundance with insanity. Wild fish in hot water oozing toward extinction, not recovery. Powered politically fabricating dysfunctions while blocking proven successes. Policies against propagating fish continued. Money applied was abandoning fish into reliable failure.

Hatchery salmon are robust somewhere else. Here held from spawning, but panhandling wild stays OK. Pinnipeds with indiscriminate harvesting failing in hot water. Hatchery salmon necessity but squandered. Rules; regulations; restrictions; nursery overharvesting; hatchery reductions; predators, especially pinnipeds, all condoned killers. Salmon halted by selective human-directed mayhem. Watch predators eat this resource.

We can kill owls but not pinnipeds. Humans fail because pinnipeds gobble 24/7. Add more fish increases out-of-balance predators. Would farmers add crops, protect breeding feral pigs and call them cute? Unprotected means salmon can’t succeed.

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