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No Habitat, No Fish by Marvin J. Entel Lewiston Tribune, February 16, 2025

You let salmon be destroyed by allowing dams on the upper Snake to be built
without any fish passage system and never said a damn word about it.

When you read the opinion of fish biologists Richard Scully and Rick Williams (Tribune, Jan. 12) regarding their scientific theses about barging fish and recovery of fish by barging, you wonder if they even know how to count, much less manage fish returns.

All they need to look at is the basic fact that when large numbers of smolt were barged from the first two lower Snake River dams and released below Bonneville Dam within the period of two years following the release, the return of adult salmon past Lower Granite Dam was the highest fish count return since 1938, when counting started at Bonneville Dam.

If Richard and Rick were any kind of fish biologists, interested in increasing the numbers of salmon, they should've been on their soapbox talking to Idaho Power when their three dams were being considered. Once these three dams blocked the spawning grounds, you had an immediate decline in the return of salmon to the Snake River because the area was the main spawning habitat.

... Habitat production for native fish is the main factor in the puzzle for spawning. If you don't have habitat, you don't have fish.

So go take your opinion as fish biologists to where it belongs, as there was never ... a main habitat for spawning salmon on the lower Snake River. You let salmon be destroyed by allowing dams on the upper Snake to be built without any fish passage system and never said a damn word about it.

Related Pages:
Policy Recommendations from Idaho Governor Brad Little's Salmon Workgroup December 2020

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