An estimated 97 percent of the Chinook caught by that Alaskan fishery spawn outside Alaska. Many of those fish might normally nourish the Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKWs) – our Puget Sound orcas.
Here, plywood hasn’t all come down
and some folks still avoid downtown;
they certainly won't go to tea
in restaurants that used to be.
And many seem to lack a yen
to see their offices again.
On July 21, the state supreme court said unanimously that the state does indeed have a duty to the schools and other beneficiaries, BUT it also has a duty to “all the people.”
Threatened Chinook salmon from the Snake River, Puget Sound, the upper Willamette River, and the lower Columbia all swim north along the coast to Southeast Alaska, where they are caught by Alaskan trollers.
What are the chances of getting enough votes for any sensible reform? And if Congress now or after the mid-terms actually coalesced around changing the Court, should we be encouraged or scared?