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On wildlife conservation: A recipe for wild salmon

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 4, 2008 at 7:03 am

From the San Francisco Chronicle, this commentary:

The recipe for bringing back wild salmon is simple - ample cold, clean water; access to spawning and rearing areas; and abundant supplies of food. It’s not complicated, but it will require a sustained commitment from everyone who values wild, local salmon.

Those who love to dine on salmon today are faced with a choice: wild-caught salmon harvested by fishermen or farmed salmon grown and harvested in captivity. This year, with the collapse of the West Coast’s commercial salmon fishery, locally caught, wild California salmon is not available, but wild-caught Alaskan salmon is. We must continue to choose and demand wild, rather than farmed, salmon - on our plates, in our markets, and in our restaurants.

Why? Wild salmon are better for the environment, our health and for the communities that depend on them. Farmed salmon jeopardize wild salmon populations, directly and indirectly. Even organically, ecologically, or sustainably farmed salmon have a devastating effect on wild Pacific salmon species.

The simple act of choosing wild over farmed salmon sends a message to business and government that we want healthy wild salmon runs and sustainable fisheries. It is a vote to restore habitat, improve water management, take down obsolete dams and manage our salmon runs sustainably.

Read the full text of this story from the San Francisco Chronicle by clicking here.

July 4, 2008 · Filed Under Salmon

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One Response to “On wildlife conservation: A recipe for wild salmon”

Ray Walker on July 5th, 2008 4:12 am

Strange…. CA has been offered a truly new fresh water Source that will yield a million acre feet a year. CA chooses to DIE (Deny, Ignore & Evade). Investigation and verification of the new Source will confirm that development of the new Source will not damage the environment or the water rights of anyone, anywhere. CA is certainly good at complaining about water shortages and conservation is part of the answer, but a new fresh water Source of 325,900,000,000 gallons per year is also part of the restoration recipe.

A scientific study was done in 1994 that concluded why the salmon were disappearing. It too was met with Ca’s decision to DIE ( Deny, Ignore & Evade).

CA’s problem is not a lack of water, fires and the disappearance of the salmon. Ca’s problem is her attitude ! If CA continues to DIE…she surely will ! Ray Walker waterrdw@yahoo.com Retired Water Rights Analyst The Source is also legally available and economically feasible to develop.

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