Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Old Black Dog on March 15, 2006, 08:09:54 AM
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1542100
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Wow!!! that is quite the read... do these so called "EXPERT" advisers have any frickin clue what they are talking about??? loss of habitat is the problem.. I think that Hatcheries are the only thing keeping stocks alive..fish farms...sea lice... blah blah blah.. are these people serious??? makes me so angry.. I guess they figure it is more important to fight losing wars and spend billions of dollars on that ,than it is to spend money in the right places and keep slamon species from going extinct...it is always about the mighty dollar... when are they going to remove theior heads from their a$$es and see the light??
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You got it right Rick.
An interesting tid bit I got at the OWC meeting, I attended to at the Sportsmans Show, was how little impact letter writing campains have on the government. Media influences governmental decitions. If they could see all the negative press they get on forums like this, they would make changes. Any ideas Rod?
Print media infuences voters, and voters put governments in power.
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Opinions in discussion forums do make a difference, as you never know who is reading these. ;) Whenever an important issue emerges on here, I send them out to the network of my contacts in the ministries, and your opinions do make an impact.
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When you drive along the Columbia river in Washington it's a series of small dams that must have a horrible affect on those returning salmon. Considering it use to be the biggest producer on the west coast. I thoght they were decomissioning alot of those? Power companies just don't have to spend 100 million on habitat when a few million to politians will have the same (haha) affect.
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you should see how bad it can be in californication, money talks and water rights for farms that produce nothing but are paid by our governments subsidies to do just that is total b.s. We DO have groups etc. doing a lot to try and change things but it's an ugly battle in a lot of spots.