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I was listening to a piece on the local news radio about fish hatcheries in the PNW and the numbers are shocking with the fish that make it back to spawn; Chinook salmon sound like they're barely holding on with all our best efforts.

I have a lot of pessimism about our ocean health, we really need to do anything we can to support fish populations -- if those collapse it's just a matter of time before the rest of the ecosystem follows.

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Take a look at Patagonia's Artifishal film[0]. The best thing to support anadromous fisheries might be just leaving them alone - in the rivers, and in the ocean.

[0]: https://www.patagonia.com/stories/artifishal/video-79192.htm...

I'm not necessarily opposed to this line of thinking but we probably need to do a lot more in other areas first, like undaming the Columbia and Snake rivers which were the largest salmon spawning grounds in the world.

Thanks for the link though, I'll take a look at it when I have some time.

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