Now's a great time for a comparative stat study on the Salmon rivers of Wash and Oregon. My bet is still that the real reason for any salmon declines other than totally blocking dams, or river specific problems such as too polluted can be summed up with this one bit, "The so-called ?bread and butter species? of the sport and commercial fisheries is in serious decline." But first you have to narrow that down a bit and for get about the sport fishing as they buy their licenses and take a few. Until the Commercials are successfully controlled the Salmon are in bad straits. They haven't been controlled yet.

A good stat study would eliminate the many false herrings that the Commercials and their allies keep using to distract the folks who really care. For instance are the runs that head up the Columbia in as much, more or less trouble than their counterparts headed up the Snake. Why or why not?