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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.
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