This is incomprehensible: The very same group that has had a profound effect on the decline of California’s salmon population is now suing to get the recently opened recreational season fishing closed!!
I’m sure it won’t surprise you to hear that a group of Central Valley irrigation districts that supply water to farms and cities is behind this one. The San Joaquin River Group Authority filed the suit on Thursday in federal district court in Fresno (hmm…Fresno…a perfect place to get your case heard by sympathetic ears!). It argues that the National Marine Fisheries Service and its related agencies violated their duty to protect the threatened Sacramento River fall run of Chinook salmon by allowing a full commercial season.
My blood’s boiling on this one…it’s like the guy who ran over your dog is now suing you…only worse! What an amazing slap in the face!
Read the whole story here in the LA Times
Derek says
Wilson makes an interesting point.
BTW…this looks to be specific to commercial fishing, not recreational as stated in the first paragraph on JD’s page. Either way, it’s a bunch of crap.
Joe says
Law makers in California only care about realection, and ther big fat pentions!!!
Has anybody seen Jerry Brown-nose?
wilson says
There may be a silver lining in this. Since they are obviously concerned about the long-term welfare of the salmon population, it can easily be argued that they should be willing to curtail their use of water for the well being of the fish. Maybe they shot themselves in the foot on this one…..
Dave Houck says
Time to get the idiots voted out