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Enjoy holding tight to the strands that aren't yet broken,
Bp
Friday, May 16, 2008
Scads of sturgeon hanging out below Bonneville
Here's a video by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers showing tons 'o sturgeon hanging out below the dam. This isn't any kind of proof about whether the overall population on the river is rising or falling, but it is heartening to see such large and key fish species in abundance. Better news than all the horrifically or non-existent salmon returns (prompting a declaration of "fisheries failure" by NOAA) we've seen this spring on the West coast in general.
Enjoy holding tight to the strands that aren't yet broken,
Bp
Enjoy holding tight to the strands that aren't yet broken,
Bp
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2 comments:
That there is a great video. I'd love to catch one of those.
The word from the fish bios that I know is that sturgeon are also suffering from the loss of the great rivers of the PNW (via their conversion by dams into warm, slow moving lakes). The cite both catch rates and average size as indicators.
These fish evolved in the free flowing rivers that are no more. Expecting that they will flourish in the environmental disasters that are the modern-day Columbia and Snake Rivers is unrealistic.
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Celilo Falls sits submerged beneath the railroad bridge West of Biggs Junction. Whenever I drive through there, I stop and pay my respects to all that we have lost.
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