That is a problem.
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The money goes to everything from fish ladders to get around the dams to habitat restoration to hatcheries. Today an estimated 80% of the fish on the system stem from hatcheries.
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Salmon cannons and hatcheries that are free-floating geodesic domes in the ocean. Hatchlings are given a free ride to the ocean, so they retain their primal urge.
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And yet the salmon continue to decline, from historical numbers of 18 million in the 1800s to barely 2 million today.
For tribes, this represents another broken promise with the U.S. government. McCoy Oatman, a tribal councilman for the Nez Perce, says his people depended on the fish for nutrition and survival before being forced onto a reservation that today only includes a stretch of the Clearwater River.
"We want to be healthy individuals like our ancestors," Oatman says. "When our bodies are not able to consume our natural foods that has an impact on us as a people."
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Reason enough to do it right there. Plus the capitalism in the article.