A superb article by Chris Dunagan in the Kitsap Sun about the difficult choices facing salmon recovery efforts. This, my friends, is where the rubber meets the road. As Dick Goin was once quoted as saying, “Let’s restore the salmon first and we can fight over who gets to catch them later.”
QUILCENE — With $20 million invested in the restoration of Tarboo Creek, it is time to allow more salmon to survive the fishing nets, swim up the stream and lay their eggs to produce even more coho and chum salmon.
That’s the bottom line for Peter Bahls of Northwest Watershed Institute, along with others who have worked hard for 10 years to make Tarboo Creek more hospitable for salmon. But Bahls worries that all the efforts to restore the Hood Canal stream in Jefferson County will be for naught if current harvesting practices continue.
Because the Skokomish Tribe fishes in Tarboo Bay — the inner portion of Dabob Bay — Bahls appealed to the Skokomish Tribal Council in a letter:
Tarboo Bay - Image by Google Maps
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