Washington Senator Slade Gorton, who was identified as supporting the idea of getting more salmon in the rivers but abandoning efforts to save particularly weak stocks, continues to be the subject of hostile pieces in the media. The Indian tribes believe that NMFS has gone overboard in its attempts to preserve each and every salmon population as inviolate. 48 Ted Strong, the Executive Director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, has even come out against listing additional anadromous fish species under the Endangered Species Act. In other words, if you hire ecologists and conservation biologists to tell you how to recover salmon, they'll tell you to take out dams. If you hire aquaculture experts, they'll tell you you can grow the fish.
Ordinary people know something is fishy about the sudden attack on hatcheries.
We breed salmon in hatcheries and cows in farms. Nobody worries about endangered cows. 43 B. Brown, Mountain in the Clouds 118-19. The News Tribune, June 17, 1996. 50 E. Brannon to M. Walker, April 8, 1997.