Federal officials were bombarded Tuesday with comments from tribal,
sport and commercial fishers who said their communities and cultures had
been plundered by hydrosystem development aimed at benefiting upstream
interests and by salmon recovery plans that ignore the obvious — the need
to breach dams.
Recovery efforts to date have focused on technical fish passage improvements,
including the barging of juvenile salmon around the dams. Those efforts,
costing about $3 billion, have been …
