Lots of the Chinook salmon caught in Alaska are Columbia River Fish from Washington. Many caught in BC also.
...and who altered the eco(ocean, forest, river, etc)systems?
really.....we all know who did but that wasn't your or my point of the required killing now to possibly fix things.
Are you suggesting we don't try?
I always learned Pacific Salmon return to the rivers they were born in.....after so many years at sea.
Most salmon caught in Alaska are fight off the river mouths....so I doubt they are anything but Alaska salmon.
And they are trying, but then you will complain how electricity is generated....or the cost of it.
Having an environmental background back to the 70's....I've heard all the angles.
Putting the river back to its natural flow might be a good start.
This from a man whose electric supplier is "BC Hydro."
Funny, isn't it, that when Europeans turned up on this coast there were gazillions of salmon and everything else...then we started to 'manage' things. Me-thinks sea lions aren't the problem .
They do, but some make big sweeps down the coast first.
According to Haida oral history, when they first came to the coast (Haida Gwaii was joined to the mainland by a low plain and glaciers filled the mainland valleys) they used to put eggs from salmon bearing streams into baskets full of soaking wet moss and deposit the eggs into rivers and streams that had no salmon.
Point being...humans once helped salmon on this coast, maybe we can again.
...but again I don't think they travel that uniformly.
...and who altered the eco(ocean, forest, river, etc)systems?
Again, sigh...
My point was, and is, that the sea lions are a function of modern humans 'managing' things.
Maybe instead of quick draw gunslinger jabs at me, ...
Lessening a predator population may be the most effective....and quickest.
back to original post--you won't be seeing dead sea lion carcasses. the plan is to trap and euthanize them i believe
I spent some time enforcing high seas driftnetting by foreign fleets that were intercepting US salmon.
They were considered the biggest threat to Alaskan salmon populations at the time.
How does The Marine Mammal Protection Act work with this?
With the exception of Bristol Bay... Alaska commercial fisheries is having the worst year on record... My son is a commercial fisherman in SE, his catch this year is about 10% of what is normal for this time of year. The seiners are fairing equally as bad. This isn't blamed on sea lions but rather an unusually warm water temps in the gulf.