Aside from who gets credit for what, the issue remains how do we as sportsfishers get more money allocated to the Columbia Salmon recovery effort. The dams aren't going away, the tribes aren't going away, and the commercials aren't going away anytime soon. There's way too much money involved coming from them.

Granted sportsfishing dumps billions into the economy, but we lack lobbyists. We have no one in DC bending ears on our behalf.

But what we do have are Congressional Representitives that should fight to get money to support local interests. I mentioned in another thread about the $50 million going to Iowa to build a domed rain forest. That's the kind of money the reps from Oregon and Washington should be fighting for to improve our recreational fishing opportunity on the Columbia.

Both states should be hammering their respective representitives to make the environment a leading issue on Capital Hill.