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May 12, 2010 in City
$40M salmon hatchery planned at Chief Joseph Dam
NESPELEM, Wash. — The Northwest Power and Conservation Council approved plans Wednesday for a salmon hatchery at the Chief Joseph Dam to help rebuild chinook runs in the upper Columbia River watershed.
The $40 million project will be funded by the Bonneville Power Administration.
The project still needs final approval of the Corps of Engineers which operates the dam and owns property where the hatchery will be built. It will produce up to 2.9 million smolts a year.
The council says the goal of the hatchery is provide a salmon harvest for Colville tribal members whose historic fishery was wiped out by the construction of Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams.
The tribe has taken the project through seven years of planning and scientific review.
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PhiltheBibliophil on May 12 at 2:21 p.m.
2.9 Million Smolt. I never smelt a Smelt that smelt like that Smelt smelt!
BigE on May 12 at 3:23 p.m.
I am sympathetic to the native Americans but let me get this right.
They are going to build a 40 million dollar hatchery to provide a salmon harvest for Colville tribal members whose historic fishery was wiped out by the construction of Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams. OK, have at it, Damn the torpedo’s
oneanddone on May 12 at 5:03 p.m.
Personally, I am NOT sympathetic to “native Americans”. They’re no more “native” than I am. What’s it take now to be an “official” redskin? 1/16th? What a joke it is for the BPA to waste $40M of our fees to build this when those same indians are suing in federal court to tear out all the dams. Black people suffered FAR worse than “native Americans” and don’t get 1% of the taxpayer’s money that indians do. Time for these lazy SOBs to get assimilated.
mdriftmeyer on May 12 at 9:23 p.m.
No more native? Thanks for being the winner of the most ignorant comment of today award.
If you think you’re being witty by comparing current generation Americans with current generation Native Americans you might be smarter than a 2nd grader.
Sorry, but Black people didn’t suffer more than Native Americans.
We, as British Colonists and later Americans slaughtered probably 8-10 million Native Americans and we broke every treaty until modern times we ever signed.
We also enslaved them, gave them smallpox and much more.
You’re right. Black Slavery was worse. Please. This nation even indentured Whites who spent 7 years indentured, often indefinitely, as payment across the Atlantic.
Blacks were the last untapped area of slavery in this nation’s history. We nearly slaughtered Native Americans out of existence and with the formation of the nation all indentured white servants were released of their contracts.
Blacks became the Hispanic [free then] day labor of today, thanks to Zulu and other African Tribes capturing their neighbors and selling them to the Dutch for trades of goods.
The entire Civil War was started because of debt and the South being unwilling to actually pay people to harvest their crops—why would they pay white or black for a days wage when they were treating Blacks like they treated Natives, but this time they realized they couldn’t slaughter them [they actually paid for them off the docks, unlike Natives who they just stole] and it just didn’t make much sense to kill off large portions of your free labor. They killed off challengers, but it wasn’t until Lincoln offered freedom that black slaves saw a brighter future.
On and on and on…
We could go back to when European nation enslaved their fellow Europeans during the glorious insanity of feudal Europe, but that’s way off topic.
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SALMON
Salmon is a multi-billion dollar business. Investing $40 million is a drop in the bucket that brings back huge gains for all parties interested in seeing the salmon industry return, especially those wanting to make a living.
Locally, here are some current estimations:
http://www.portoflewiston.com/RSalmonFacts.html