Gunner wrote:


> Have your local Salmon fishermen keep one of two for
> next time he goes out instead of killing and tossing em overboard.
> Europeans eat em

Local salmon fishermen?

Nobody has fished for salmon here since WW2. This county got its name
because
of all the reeds surrounding a huge lake that attracted migratory birds
and herds of elk and the Native Americans that lived a sedentary
lifestyle there on the lake shore.

The lake was fed by snowmelt from a high mountain range and several
rivers still flow
downwards toward the lake but those rivers are dammed for flood control
during the rainy season and irrigation during the dry months.

A 400 square mile forest grew along the banks of the rivers, but 99% of
it was cleared away to make room for Spanish style cattle ranching, and
then farming and orange groves.

The great river that flowed to the sea and attracted salmon spawning
has gone dry.

The huge lake is dry, but the birds keep migrating to it. A few elk are
left in an elk sanctuary. The center of the valley is now technically a
desert.

And riparian famers have used the fertile bottom land to plant crops
like cotton, which devastate the land further...

However, the government is going to make the farmers surrender the land
and the river will be restored, and the salmon should hopefully return.

But probably not in my lifetime.