Salmon in 2011: Elwha dams start down
[255] [desk-salmon-2] They keep harvest numbers up and can dilute wild fitness. The argument is now about proportions, not existence A specimen label at a natural history museum records where and when, not which animal is more valuable. For Salmon, write 2011, “Elwha dams start down,” and 2011, and leave league tables off the card. Another high-value migratory fish under RFMO arithmetic.
They keep harvest numbers up and can dilute wild fitness. The argument is now about proportions, not existence. Why are Atlantic salmon a different politics? Wild S. salar collapsed in much of Europe and New England. Farmed Atlantic salmon in net pens are a separate industry with sea-louse and escape files.
Many Alaska runs are still large and limited-entry managed. That success is not transferable to a heavily dammed Columbia without the same habitat. Olfactory imprinting on natal water plus celestial and magnetic cues. A ladder that smells wrong is a closed door. Did Boldt (1974) change more than courtrooms?
US v. Washington affirmed treaty harvest shares for tribes. Allocation, not biology, became the daily salmon fight in Puget Sound. Salmon is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Salmon is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo.2011
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2011
- Figure to keep
- 2011
- Species
- Salmon
- Line in the log
- Elwha dams start down
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