Originally Posted By: stlhdr1
Originally Posted By: Lead Bouncer
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You clowns could tear down every dam on the columbia and the netters would still kill more and more wild fish. Its the method. They killed 27,000,000 salmon in 24 years and the hatcheries could not keep up, let alone mother nature.


Where did you come up with that figure?

Is that another Cedar Creek hatchbox or the classic "mop up" statistic? rofl

Keith


If you look at the history of salmon harvest, graphs show the average take between 1840 and 1940 at 20 - 40 million pounds. It does not give the average weight of the fish but lets guess 30 pounds. Average catch 30 million pounds = 1 million fish per year harvested 24 years = give or take 24 million fish. No too far off. Hardly a Cedar Creek mop up? rofl + 10

1883
The transcontinental railroad is established.

The non-Indian chinook catch is 43 million pounds; 55 canneries are in operation at or near the Columbia River.

(Just another little mop up)







Edited by Jhook (01/09/10 09:40 PM)
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