$750,000 every year for 23 years? Thats 17,250,000 dollars! Do you realize how many state of the art
fish ladders and other alterations to dams could have been built in that time? It's true the law says
there must be fish ladders but nothing says they have to work. And nothing says you have to provide
safe passage for the smolts down river. What's the sense of dumping 2.8 million fry into the river
only to have them ground up in turbines or diverted into urban canals where poachers decimate them
by the thousands. I actually think this is GOOD news. They don't say they're giving up-just rethinking
the stratagy. Fisheries managment has come along way in 23 years. It's time to look at the problem
from a fresh perspective. Management focused on an entire ecosystem rather than one individual
component is the way of the future.