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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.
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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
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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
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