As one who has grown up with salmon all his life (50 now). I have fished the Fraser, Skeena, Nass and Bulkley rivers. I have grown to reliaze one thing,the critical fish for future generations are the ones that survive to the spawning beds. Yet we net these fish for various reasons, we destroy their cover, fill these beds with silt and drive roads and machinary through them.
Now we want to mine gravel out of the Fraser in order to get a few rocks to build high rises. The question I have is why are we spending millions of dollars on salmonod enhancement. Now we want to take away the spawinging ground of what few wild salmon we have left.
If my eyes were decieving me its seems to me the last time I saw salmon spawning, it was in gravel!
May mother nature and future generations forgive us.
Falkor