Salmon — Boldt Decision · 94
[659] [roadmap-salmon-3] After 2011-14, sediment flushed and salmon recolonised reaches above the old dams faster than some models feared -- a rare full-height teardown. 94 Five to seven species that still define Alaska summers. 1974: log Salmon under “Boldt Decision” with 1974. Do not rank the species. Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp., North Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programm
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.
Keep 1974, “Boldt Decision,” and 1974 together or the note on Salmon stops being that year’s record. 1974: log Salmon under “Boldt Decision” with 1974. Do not rank the species. 19741974
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 1974
- Figure to keep
- 1974
- Species
- Salmon
- Line in the log
- Boldt Decision
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