Posted: 1/27/2010 9:16:09 PM EDT
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“It’s (salmon) the only endangered species you can buy in the grocery store.” –– Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island Member of the Senate ag committee Discuss!  |
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Actually, not much truth there. More smoke and mirrors. If you go into the store and they have wild King salmon, it doesn't mean that it came from an area where it is listed as endangered. In other words, Alaskan King Salmon is not endangered, if it was harvested in the specifically listed parts of Washington or California, then yes. Atlantic salmon: Endangered in parts of Maine. Chinook salmon: Endangered in parts of Washington and California; threatened in parts of Washington, California, and Idaho. Coho salmon: Endangered in parts of California; threatened in parts of Oregon, California, and the Lower Columbia River Sockeye salmon: Endangered in parts of Idaho; Threatened in parts of Washington. Chum salmon: Threatened in parts of Oregon and Washington. |
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All this talk of salmon being and endangered species really pisses me off. According to the ESA, if something is listed, you cannot catch, disturb, harm, etc. and to do so is sbject to stiff federal penalties.
Salmon are the only thing listed on the endangered specs list that you can keep and eat a "wild" chinook if you catch it 100' west of bouy 10 and is an endangered salmon if you catch it 100' east of bouy 10. Bullshit! Under the law, if you catch or disturb a wild fish, it is considered a take. It does not matter if it survives or not. The USFWS has choosen to selectively apply the ESA to salmon. My wife wsa a field biologist that specialized in endangered species. Once we moved out here, she quit the environmental field because their decisions and actions are based off touchy feel-good bullshit instead of real science. Federal and state agencies do not follow their own regulations and laws as it relates to endangered species in Washington and Oregon. Fuck it. They taste good. 
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Quoted: Some truth there...... You don't see Spotted Owl or Bald Eagle in the Poultry Center. Reminds me of sign hanging in the shitter of a small saw shop, near Springdale, WA- "Sorry Boys- No more paper- No more towels- It's OK, Just wipe your ass with a Spotted Owl!" |
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Go down behind the Mearsk terminal in Tacoma and watch Puyallups catch salmon by the shitload. They sell 'em for a buck a pound to anyone. What doesn't sell, ends up stinking up the roadside. I've seen videos of game dept people clubbing 'em by the ton. Endangered, my old hairy ass. |
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Go down behind the Mearsk terminal in Tacoma and watch Puyallups catch salmon by the shitload. They sell 'em for a buck a pound to anyone. What doesn't sell, ends up stinking up the roadside. I've seen videos of game dept people clubbing 'em by the ton. Endangered is my old hairy ass. So, you want your ass protected? |
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I confess, it is my fault. I already had smoked salmon twice this week and it was very good. 
On a more serious note, if it became illegal to fish for salmon, the salmon population would probably go form endangered to out of c0controll in no time. Were they hard to light? 
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Quoted: We do what we can at my house as well. http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q233/mesoas/fish%20pics/P1010259.jpg  |
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Quoted: By you, personally, my little sprocket. Quoted: Go down behind the Mearsk terminal in Tacoma and watch Puyallups catch salmon by the shitload. They sell 'em for a buck a pound to anyone. What doesn't sell, ends up stinking up the roadside. I've seen videos of game dept people clubbing 'em by the ton. Endangered is my old hairy ass. So, you want your ass protected?  |
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Pre surgery pic? |
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Pre surgery pic? Yep, that's the summer before last. Next to me is my uncle who has a boat at Westport were I caught that Salmon. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Pre surgery pic? Yep, that's the summer before last. Next to me is my uncle who has a boat at Westport were I caught that Salmon. Looks like a heavy and healthy sob! |
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Pre surgery pic? Yep, that's the summer before last. Next to me is my uncle who has a boat at Westport were I caught that Salmon. Looks like a heavy and healthy sob! 40lbs before we cleaned him. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Pre surgery pic? Yep, that's the summer before last. Next to me is my uncle who has a boat at Westport were I caught that Salmon. Looks like a heavy and healthy sob! 40lbs before we cleaned him. Nice work. Bet that was a fun day. I had a pic of me with one I caught around that size, but lost it, so now it's just a big fish story.  |