North Coast Oregon

$8 Billion for fish, fishing or the agencies monitoring it all?

by Carilynn Rummell

Fishers, hunters and wildlife viewers spent a combined total of more than $2.18 billion in Washington in 2001. The state ranks first in the Northwest, and eighth in the nation, in spending by sport fishers, which totaled nearly $854 million that same year. ... a very proactive, aggressive public education program was developed and initiated by Rod Nichols, Conservation Educator for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Because of Idaho’s experience and successes in promoting public education within their own state, the Columbian Basin Law Enforcement Council (CBLEC) agencies agreed that they were best equipped to provide a comprehensive public education program that would represent the interests of all CBLEC agencies.

Following the Money – Hard Work pinning down huge amounts of money

by Carilynn Rummell

The BPA funding provided each participating agency with: sophisticated electronic and surveillance equipment (e.g., night vision, radio-tracking, and FLIR);specialized vehicles and boats; airplanes; weapons; data management systems; communications; back country gear; and field stations … in an attempt to preserve and protect the fish that the building of 400 dams “may have” contributed, in a debatable manner, to their decline.

BPA has determined that, until studies show evidence to the contrary, overfishing and poaching are equally detrimental to the health of the Columbia River’s, and its tributaries, fish. They initiate, enforce and support the laws regulating the fishing industry, sporting and commercial.

Fighting the Odds, Fishing on the Columbia River

by Carilynn Rummell

According to Bill Lang, Professor of History Portland State University, dams on the Columbia and its tributaries have contributed significantly to steep declines in historically strong anadromous fish runs. Commenting on the decline in 1996, one fisherman observed, “The commercial fleet in Washington has been decimated to a point that it is without resources to even present their case. The few individuals left, with the mental stamina to try to protect the industry, are doing so at enormous costs to themselves, both financially and psychologically, with less opportunity to make a living in the industry than ever before.”

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