07-20-2007, 08:56 PM
[black][size 3]This is a situation that has been on the decline for many years.[/size][/black]
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[size 3]I use to fish for the salmon on the salmon river above Ketchum, Idaho, and even if they were not plentiful, you could spend a week, and come home with some good eats.[/size]
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[size 3]It would take the salmon 90 days to reach the spawning beds after they left the Pacific.[/size]
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[size 3]They would loose 1/3 of their body weight during the trip.[/size]
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[size 3]The thing that got to me most was the fact that the actual spawning areas were closed to angling, but the local native (Indian) population would gaff the spawners, cut the eggs from them to sell to fishermen, and toss the fish.[/size]
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[size 3]God only knows how many millions of salmon were missed because they were never allowed to spawn.[/size]
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[size 3]Just airing one of my life long conservation gripes.[/size]
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[size 3]I use to fish for the salmon on the salmon river above Ketchum, Idaho, and even if they were not plentiful, you could spend a week, and come home with some good eats.[/size]
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[size 3]It would take the salmon 90 days to reach the spawning beds after they left the Pacific.[/size]
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[size 3]They would loose 1/3 of their body weight during the trip.[/size]
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[size 3]The thing that got to me most was the fact that the actual spawning areas were closed to angling, but the local native (Indian) population would gaff the spawners, cut the eggs from them to sell to fishermen, and toss the fish.[/size]
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[size 3]God only knows how many millions of salmon were missed because they were never allowed to spawn.[/size]
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[size 3]Just airing one of my life long conservation gripes.[/size]
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