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Page 2 T h e IN D E P E N D E N T , N o v e m b e r 7, 2001 IT A/OVZ ynu J ump p izr |A/ FÆ o /'/T of YOO- SkOW Profiteers, as slimy now as in all wars The airlines were losing money before September 11. United Airlines lost about $600 million in the six months prior to September and were going to lose an other $300 million in the third quarter. But, hey, don’t worry, folks, with the active participation of Congress and the administration, we bailed them out using Sept. 11 as the excuse. Of course, bailing them out doesn’t mean there was no loss of of jobs, it only means their shareholders passed the existing losses on to people who don’t own airline stock - ordinary taxpayers - and the executives got to keep their jobs while thousands of employees were laid off. Without diminishing the impact of more than 5,000 lives lost on Sept. 11, why isn’t Congress concerned about the forty or fifty thousand people - and their fam ilies - who lost their income because they worked at the World Trade Center? Not all of them were in well- paid jobs with benefits and insurance, either. Many of them were part-time people who cleaned offices or filled in on low-end clerical jobs, or worked in mail rooms, or were messengers. For every “glamorous” job there were probably 20 or 30 low-income workers. And now, in addition to these tragic circumstances, we appear to be headed into a recession, instead of just an “economic downturn,” which means a whole lot more people are going to be out of work. But if you lis ten to some (most?) of the Republican leadership, you know they want to fix the economy by eliminating the alternative minimum tax for corporations, even refund ing billions of dollars paid by corporations back to 1986! The same people don’t want to spend tax money on public works that could provide jobs working on roads, bridges, water or sewage treatment plants, because that’s, horrors...PORK! They aren’t concerned about the kind of taxpayers who actually lose jobs, they don’t even want to extend unemployment benefits by 13 weeks. War profiteers used to sell hard to get items for huge profits. Now they just write a check to their buddies in Congress and the administration, then put their profits in the bank. People who use their income to buy food for their families just don’t count. " t j X jy X I \|( 't • '<■ .■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ • •; ' 1 : ~ T ” By Dale Webb, member Nehalem Valley Chapter Izaak Walton League A n yo n e fo r sa lm o n ? It’s u n b e lie va b le that so m e of us are g e ttin g tire d of e a tin g sa lm o n , but th a t is th e case this year. I h a d n 't c a u g h t a sa lm o n sin ce I w a s a g ra d e schoo ler, b u t I p u n ch e d fiv e salm on on m y h a rv e s t ta g th is year. I’m not an avid sa lm o n fish e rm a n , e s p e c ia lly w h e n it m eans being e lb o w to e lb o w w ith a bun ch of oth e r fish e rm e n . T h is y e a r’s h a tch e ry fish runs w e re so large, th o u g h , th a t th e re w e re p la ce s eve n I could fish w ith o u t being s u rro u n d ed by th e hordes. T his b rin g s us to the c u rre n t c o n tro v e rs y s u r ro und ing sa lm o n and th e E n d a n g e re d S p e cie s A ct (E S A ) listings. A s m any of you have read, a fe d e ra l ju d g e has o rd e re d d e -listin g of O re g o n co a s ta l C o h o salm on . T h e ju d g e ruled th a t the N a tio n a l M a rin e F isheries S e rvice (N M F S ) erred in listing w ild C o ho sa lm o n as th re a te n e d b e ca u se th e re are lots of ha tch e ry C o h o a nd “ h e ” d o e s n ’t re co g n ize a d istin ctio n b e tw e e n h a tch e ry and w ild C oho. N M F S re co g n ize s a d iffe re n ce b e tw e e n h a tch e ry and w ild fish. It a lso w a n te d th e d is tin c tio n b etw e en the tw o so fis h e rie s m a n a g e rs co u ld m anag e them differently, a llo w in g s p o rts m e n and co m m e rcia l fis h e rm e n to ha rve st h a tch e ry fish, w h ile o ffe ring p ro te ctio n to w ild fish. Is th e re a diffe re n ce b e tw e e n h a tch e ry and w ild fish ? I have bee n re p e a te d ly told by O re g o n D e p a rtm e n t of Fish & W ild life p e rs o n n e l that th e re is a d ifference, but I ha ve not se e n a c o n vin cin g study. Yet, co m m o n se n se te lls us that, at the least, there is a b e h a vio ra l d iffe re n ce b e ■ ■» < ,4b» Xv... tw e e n th e tw o. W ild fish are s p a w n e d in a n a tu r al h a b ita t, i.e., river, s tre a m , e tc.; h a tc h e ry fish are sp a w n e d by m a n in a h a tch e ry. W ild fish e g g s a re s u b je c te d to d is e a s e , p re d a to rs and na tu ra l e ve n ts; h a tc h e ry e g g s are p ro te cte d fro m d ise a se , p re d a to rs a nd n a tu ra l e ve n ts. W h e n w ild fish hatch, th e y m u st fin d th e ir ow n feed, are s u b je c te d to p re d a to rs and to e n viro n m e n ta l c o n d itio n s th a t c a n c a u s e d is e a s e and d ea th; h a tc h e ry fish a re fed a n tib io tic s th ro u g h th e ir u n n a tu ra l fe e d , p ro te c te d fro m p re d a to rs a nd have cle a n , co o l w ater. T h is is w h y h a tch e rie s have such a high ra tio of s u rv iv o rs c o m p a re d to w ild fish. S o m e s tu d ie s c o n c lu d e th a t, o n ce h a tch e ry fish a re re le a se d , th e y s u ffe r h ig h e r p re d a tio n rates th a n w ild fish. T h is is th o u g h t by m a n y to be th e re su lt of h a tc h e ry re a rin g on th e fis h e s ' re a ctio n to na tu ra l p re d a to rs a n d fe e d in g habits. T h e re is a lso so m e e v id e n c e th a t h a tch e ry sp a w n e rs a re not as s u c c e s s fu l a s w ild fish, but I have not s e e n a s u g g e s tio n th a t th e o ffsp rin g of a h a tc h e ry /w ild p a ir h a ve co n tin u e d im p a irm e n t. C a n w e c o n tin u e to p ro d u c e h a tch e ry fish fo r e ve r? P robably, as lo ng as c e rta in sa fe g u a rd s are p u t in to place. L e t’s e x a m in e th e C o h o in o u r local stre a m , th e N e h a le m . T h e o n ly h a tch e ry p ro d u ctio n th a t e xists fo r th e N e h a le m R ive r is at the N o rth F o rk hatchery. T h is h a tc h e ry sits ve ry low in o u r d ra in a g e . In fact, th e s e fish are a c tu a lly ra ise d in a d iffe re n t river, sin ce th e s e tw o rivers a re tie d to g e th e r o n ly th ro u g h a sha re d tid e w a te r a nd nam e. If th e w ild fish of th e N e ha le m w e re a llo w e d to go e xtin ct, th e re w o u ld be no m o re C o h o c o u rs in g th ro u g h th e u p p e r riv e r P le a s e s ee p a g e 2
