Federal "policies" are part of the reason for this disaster.
11:32 AM PDT on Thursday, May 1, 2008
Associated Press
PORTLAND - It's official: This year's West Coast salmon fishery is an economic disaster.
NOAA Fisheries made the declaration Thursday in Portland.
This is a first step toward providing federal disaster assistance to commercial and charter salmon fishermen and related businesses in California, Oregon and Washington.
The governors of those states have estimated $290 million in losses due to the shutdown of salmon fishing.
The fishing was curtailed because of a sudden collapse in populations of chinook salmon from California's Sacramento Valley.
NOAA Fisheries is the federal agency in charge of ocean fisheries and turning around the long-standing decline in salmon populations.
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Fishing reduces stress and gives you a break from our modern world where everything is going a million miles per hour
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