Feds could restrict Pacific Ocean fishing over endangered orcas, NOAA letter says
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking a fresh look at whether new fishing restrictions are needed to help prevent the extinction of endangered southern resident killer whales that frequent Puget Sound. New evidence of the fish the whales depend on and the risk posed to orcas by depleted prey has caused the agency to write a letter of guidance to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, indicating the agency is examining whether new restrictions are needed—particularly on fisheries in the lower Columbia and Sacramento rivers and on fall-run chinook salmon in the Klamath River. >click to read<17:02
Considering they are not st historic lows in reality, but sick with pollution and parasite infestation, I believe the tactic is useless, reduce runoffs and restore salmon habitat, keep a mile barrier from being logged to prevent flooding and wilting, and to contain chemical runoffs, have only hook and line in all rivers, nets in rivers banned, and bump up enhancements, and above all get rid of foriegn owned fish farms raising foriegn to this coast fish, and the chemical they dump in the water!