Indigenous people have fished the Columbia River for centuries before contact. The fish was plentiful. Indigenous families never took more than their need. How will the indigenous fishers be included in these new fisheries on the Columbia? I cannot donate until I know they have their involvement and fair share in these new Fisher pens. Marilyn Wandrey
This is a great idea at first glance, but unfortunately sea lions will eventually figure out this very easy opportunity. If you moved this practice further up river, you'd at least have an opportunity to keep the sea lion numbers in check. Cathlamet? No chance. To represent any differently to the many people who have no clue on what the sea lion populations are like in the lower 75 miles of the Columbia River is very misleading. Those fish will never make it out the back of the trap and many will in fact be eaten at the bottom end of the trap unless the sea lions are already preoccupied. If you're saying this isn't an issue, I love to hear when you're testing as the sea lion populations fluctuate between spring, summer and fall as you probably know.
U say they swim along with hatchery fish ..how long have they done this? Have they enter mixed with wild fish?is there a wild fish anymore ? There will never be a wild fish in any rivers.hatchery fish have been enterduced in they have entermixed for years! This is not a way to fix the problem this way u talk about will destroy are population of fish cause most of your so called natives are half breeds or unclipped fish away. The way to fix the problem is to keep putting fish in the rivers cause u already destroyed these native runs
Indigenous people have fished the Columbia River for centuries before contact. The fish was plentiful. Indigenous families never took more than their need. How will the indigenous fishers be included in these new fisheries on the Columbia? I cannot donate until I know they have their involvement and fair share in these new Fisher pens.
Marilyn Wandrey
This is a great idea at first glance, but unfortunately sea lions will eventually figure out this very easy opportunity. If you moved this practice further up river, you'd at least have an opportunity to keep the sea lion numbers in check. Cathlamet? No chance. To represent any differently to the many people who have no clue on what the sea lion populations are like in the lower 75 miles of the Columbia River is very misleading. Those fish will never make it out the back of the trap and many will in fact be eaten at the bottom end of the trap unless the sea lions are already preoccupied. If you're saying this isn't an issue, I love to hear when you're testing as the sea lion populations fluctuate between spring, summer and fall as you probably know.
Will hatchery fish be passed through for fisherman to catch in the tributaries where the hatcheries are? Or is this just for wild fish passage?
3:07
guys feathers and all
Is a saying
Feathers?
Sea lions like this idea, easy pickings
1:50 belly
red.. white
U say they swim along with hatchery fish ..how long have they done this? Have they enter mixed with wild fish?is there a wild fish anymore ? There will never be a wild fish in any rivers.hatchery fish have been enterduced in they have entermixed for years! This is not a way to fix the problem this way u talk about will destroy are population of fish cause most of your so called natives are half breeds or unclipped fish away. The way to fix the problem is to keep putting fish in the rivers cause u already destroyed these native runs