Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Pacific Salmon Management and S. 1825, the Pacific Salmon Recovery Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, and FisheriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Pacific salmon management and S. 1825, the Pacific Salmon Recovery Act
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422333620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Northwest Salmon Recovery
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Pacific Salmon Recovery Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries subsidies
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Salmon and Steelhead Recovery in the Pacific Northwest
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Drinking Water, Fisheries, and WildlifePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Pacific Salmon Treaty Act of 1985
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. National Ocean Policy StudyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Conservation of Columbia Basin Fish: Regional coordination and public involvement
Author: Sacrificing the Salmon
Author: Michael C. BlummPublisher: Vandeplas Pub
ISBN: 9781600421976
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Pacific salmon are the paramount cultural and spiritual symbol of the Pacific Northwest. Since the beginning of human habitation, salmon have been central to subsistence, trade, and even religion. The natives of the region considered salmon so crucial to their way of life that they bargained in 1850s treaties to continue to harvest a share of the salmon runs in return for ceding to the United States the lands that now forms the states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. A century and a half later, because of their environmental sensitivity, Pacific salmon runs from California to Alaska function as barometers of the health of the watersheds they inhabit. Their decline throughout the twentieth century is a reflection of the deterioration of Pacific Northwest watersheds. In this book, Professor Michael Blumm explains the role of the law in the decline of what were once the largest of the Pacific salmon runs, those of the Columbia Basin. The Columbia Basin is home to the largest interconnected hydroelectric power system in the world, considerable irrigation withdrawals, and extensive timber harvesting, grazing, and mining. All of these activities, along with substantial harvests in the ocean and the river, have adversely affected Columbia Basin salmon runs. As a result, the salmon runs, especially wild salmon, are now only a fraction of what they once were. Professor Blumm examines several unsuccessful promises to protect or restore the salmon runs, beginning with the Indian treaties of the 1850s and including a century of hatchery operations which aimed to compensate for habitat loss due to hydroelectric and other developments. These promises, as well as those made by the Northwest Power Act, the Pacific Salmon Treaty, the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Federal Power Act proved unable to reverse the decline of Columbia Basin salmon. Sacrificing the Salmon explains why these efforts failed and examines the prospects for the future. Professor Blumm is pessimistic about the capability of ongoing restoration programs under the Endangered Species Act and the Northwest Power Act to achieve their goals because those programs are committed to a status quo of river operations that is the cause of roughly 80 percent of human caused salmon mortalities. He believes that more therapeutic courses of action lie in litigation concerning the tribes' treaty rights and in efforts to breach several dams on the Lower Snake River, and he explains why. Sacrificing the Salmon examines all of these issues in the complicated relationship of the law and the decline of Columbia Basin salmon, the first book to do so. There are several lessons in this case study which may applicable to other resources in other regions, and a concluding chapter of the book draws them. About the author: Michael C. Blumm is Professor of Law at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. (this book was previously published by BookWorld Publications in The Netherlands with ISBN: 978-90-75228-25-0)
Pacific Salmon Treaty Negotiations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Environment and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Salmon Without Rivers
Author: Jim LichatowichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
"Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even try to understand. We assumed we could have salmon without rivers." --from the introduction From a mountain top where an eagle carries a salmon carcass to feed its young to the distant oceanic waters of the California current and the Alaskan Gyre, salmon have penetrated the Northwest to an extent unmatched by any other animal. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the natural productivity of salmon in Oregon, Washington, California, and Idaho has declined by eighty percent. The decline of Pacific salmon to the brink of extinction is a clear sign of serious problems in the region. In Salmon Without Rivers, fisheries biologist Jim Lichatowich offers an eye-opening look at the roots and evolution of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest. He describes the multitude of factors over the past century and a half that have led to the salmon's decline, and examines in depth the abject failure of restoration efforts that have focused almost exclusively on hatcheries to return salmon stocks to healthy levels without addressing the underlying causes of the decline. The book: describes the evolutionary history of the salmon along with the geologic history of the Pacific Northwest over the past 40 million years considers the indigenous cultures of the region, and the emergence of salmon-based economies that survived for thousands of years examines the rapid transformation of the region following the arrival of Europeans presents the history of efforts to protect and restore the salmon offers a critical assessment of why restoration efforts have failed Throughout, Lichatowich argues that the dominant worldview of our society -- a worldview that denies connections between humans and the natural world -- has created the conflict and controversy that characterize the recent history of salmon; unless that worldview is challenged and changed, there is little hope for recovery. Salmon Without Rivers exposes the myths that have guided recent human-salmon interactions. It clearly explains the difficult choices facing the citizens of the region, and provides unique insight into one of the most tragic chapters in our nation's environmental history.