Northern Pike Bounty Lake Roosevelt

[Platensek-po]

As usual it only matters what certain groups think. If you ask me it's to late to keep them out of the lower Columbia...they are already there. They netted the shat out of the Pend Oreille for years and that didn't keep them from coming over Boundary Dam and populating Lake Roosevelt. If salmon are the only thing that matters why not take out ALL the dams and close all Columbia River salmon fishing. And as usual let's pit the salmon fishermen against the spiny-ray fishermen.. the division goes on and on... getting pretty old  ..over and out

I wish they would take out all the dams and shut down fishing. Not just on the Columbia either. Spiny-ray fish can be found just about everywhere in this country. Pacific salmon are not.

Pacific salmon are found from California thousands of miles north to Alaska. Agree spiny ray are just about everywhere but I am not fishing everywhere in the country. I have spiny ray fishing close to home. Why should I go to some other state around the country to fish for them ..Just like me saying if you want Pacific Salmon go to Alaska.

So you want to impact salmon because you want to be able
To fish for non native species close to home? Salmon are native to the Columbia. Those species can also be found in this state in waters not necessary for salmon. So again it’s about saving a native species  not about what’s convenient for you

look up salmon predation in the Mcnary pool.  They did away with the limits on bass and walleye because of narrow minded special interest groups.  They are killing one of the top walleye fisheries in the nation.  And studies show that the pike minnow was over 70% of the salmons predation.  They target mostly Shad in that area.  And you want all dams out and no fishing??  You sound pretty trolly and special interest to me.

Yes. Remove all the dams from salmon waters and stop all fishing, commercial/sport/tribal/ of salmon in WA until they can bounce back. Sorry that you don’t like that take. It’s pretty clear that dams are extremely harmful to salmon for numerous reasons. Look at how well the Elwha bounced back after the removal of the dam there. With how dry our summers and falls have been the last couple years I hate to see what the runs will look like in 3-5 years when these runs start coming back. I guess I’m just very passionate about Saving a species that I grew up fishing and I see disappearing.

[Stein]

If only it were that "easy".  It would almost certainly help, but there aren't any dams or fishing in some rivers for some species and they haven't came back.  Too many things contributing to the problem for one thing to fix it.

A huge thing is what's going on in the ocean, if good numbers of healthy fish don't make it back it doesn't matter what the fresh water looks like.

[Platensek-po]

If only it were that "easy".  It would almost certainly help, but there aren't any dams or fishing in some rivers for some species and they haven't came back.  Too many things contributing to the problem for one thing to fix it.

A huge thing is what's going on in the ocean, if good numbers of healthy fish don't make it back it doesn't matter what the fresh water looks like.

Thats true as well. There are a lot of factors contributing to whats going on. They all need to be addressed as quickly as possible. Im not so sure i see a future where my kids get to grow up fishing for salmon.