Hmmm

Who cares about what the dem's and rep's think abou salmon plans. lets face it this is not an issue that will be decided upon by elected officials. Salmon plans are developed by people who have been entrenched beauracracys longer than any elected official has been in office. presidents and congressmen come and go but beaurocrats are eternal ( at least in their own minds).
Therefore it is thoes individuals in these government agencies that really set the tone and are who we as sport anglers need to influence.
That said this would be my proposal for a salmon plan.

1. REQUIRE!!! opperators of all dams to make habitats downstream of their facilities optimal for salmon and steelhead year around. ( no more drying out chum redds) and things like that

2, eliminate road building loggin and development in critical salmon habitata or areas that could affect such habitat.

3. Make hatchery plans for 3 purposes
a. harvest fisheries where wild stocks are depleted to extinction. Such rivers should be planted heavily for the purpose of a high yeld fisher for sport commercial and tribal fisheries. There would be few such fisheries but there would be some..

b. total wild rivers. These are to be in every location where good populations of wild fish still exsist. Focus on these rivers will be no hatcheries with catch and release regulations that also require selective gear single barbles hooks.. This is not creating " botique " fisheries!!! it's sustainable sport fishing opportunity..

c. mixed stock fisheries. These are to take place where hatchery stocks would have little impact on wild runs and would consist of as an example Wild winter steelhead but hatchery fall chinook and coho but NOT hatchery winter steelhead.. The purpose is to provide some harvest opportunity in areas where there may not be a "harvest river".

Commercial Net fishing in the columbia will be terminated and a series of fish traps created where fishermen will be trained to properly handle and release ALL wild fish. Tribal fisheries would be opperated in the same manner and every single hatcher fish would be marked.

Storm run off would be dealt with in a meaningful way so that urban and suburban streams don't have lethal levels of toxic chemicals in them

In all aspects the overall survival of each strain of fish in each river will be the overriding factor in determining what activities can take place in a watershed. In other words no political decisions. Everything that happens must have a strong scientific rationale to support it.

anyway yes i know it's a pipe dream so what. WHat choice would such a plan have but to work???