Federal grants will replace tunnels under roads that allow water to pass through but not fish
The Biden administration announced nearly $200 million in federal infrastructure grants on Wednesday to upgrade tunnels that route streams under roads but can kill fish that get trapped trying to get through. “We inherited a lot of structures that were built in a way that just didn’t think through the effect they had on fish,” US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said in an interview with The Associated Press. “You don’t have to be a fish lover or an ecologist to care about this. It is very important for livelihoods, the economy and the way of life in many parts of the country.” Some of the 169 projects included in the first batch in a $1 billion initiative to be rolled out over five years under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 would upgrade or replace the culverts with bridges to make water — and fish — more free to let flow. >click to read< 11:36
It’s really unfortunate that the Biden administration puts so much thought into “saving the fish” while doing absolutely nothing to save the fishermen. And now we’ve got a brand-new national fisheries management plan (or outline or whatever it’s called by the bureaucrats) that’s gonna do more of the same. Onward and upward?????