Wow….and the costs just keep rising… are we winning? Or losing? Are there options?
4/10 Seattle Times
State on the hook for $768 for every salmon caught in Puget Sound
By Craig Welch
Seattle Times environment reporter
Puget Sound’s popular blackmouth fishery ” made possible by a complex system of hatcheries that produce and rear these plump young versions of chinook salmon ” costs $768 for every fish that’s caught.
That’s a calculation made by the state Auditor’s Office in an audit released Friday of the state’s politically popular key winter fishery.
Each year the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife produces hundreds of thousands of the juvenile salmon in hatcheries, then raises them for 14 months or more in ponds until they lose the instinct to migrate. Then the fish are released for fishermen to hook for sport.
More at
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011571859_fishaudit10m.html
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