"The Galloping Gourmand" > wrote in message
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> 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.


Yawn, how Idyllic blah blah, The sport fisherman there, slick, ya still got
Sea Lions, you got Salmon, where there are Salmon, there are the Dogfish but
you have no intention of trying that recipe you snatched off the internet
from Terra do you?