The result of seven years of Bush administration policies
All salmon fishing banned on West Coast
Never in the history of fishing has this happened...
Salmon live on a five year cycle, or a seven year cycle depending on the species.
Salmon require a healthy ecosystem to thrive. They are not going overseas like our jobs but rather just gone... The result of cutting off water to give to farmers, industry, and energy producers as well as habitat decline (read increased logging, elimination of protective buffers along streams and increased allowances of pollution emissions by the Bush administration)
and no change in consumption is dramatic and portrays a grim reality.
A finite resource can not be indefinitely extracted without the loss of that resource.
Salmon habitat= healthy salmon
This isn't the fault of the commercial fishing industry.
This is the fault of the Bush administration's values.
Clearly the value lies in a short term extraction of wealth for the benefit of a few.
Does someone see it another way? Please advise.
posted by Mistake Master @ 2:30 PM
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I don't know if it's specific to the Bush politics but I agree completely with your premise that it's a direct result of government legislating for profit. Reading the story from the sfchronicle.com I read the following paragraph:
"The disaster declaration allows state officials to work with Congress on obtaining appropriations for businesses and fishermen and women, some of whom will lose as much as 80 percent of their annual income."
So don't worry about the fact that an entire species has almost been wiped out because the government will give you cheese. Just keep on voting in the same politicians.
And no, being profitable is not to blame here (latter stated just in case some loonbat gloms on).
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