Youth-led rally & march highlights urgent need to stop salmon and orca extinction, remove lower Snake River dams

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  1. An interesting Professional Paper was published in 1986; by Dr. D Chapman, titled: ‘Salmon and Steelhead Abundance in the Columbia River in the Nineteenth Century.’

    This Paper was published in the Journal ‘Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.’

    The paper’s Figure #1 shows a graph of ‘Total Catches of Chinook Salmon’ from 1868 through 1966. It shows that the ‘maximum annual catch’ of Chinook Salmon, 20 Million Kilograms, occurred in 1883; and by the early 1960’s the ‘annual catch’ had decreased to 2 million Kilograms.

    The ‘first Lower Snake River Dam,’ Ice Harbor project; came online in 1962; so therefore the decrease in ‘annual catch of Chinook Salmon’ from 20 Million Kilograms to 2 Million Kilograms occurred prior to the presence of any of the Lower Snake River Projects.

    Perhaps ‘overfishing’ has been a major culprit?

    Perhaps the Youth Salmon group could research this topic further?

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