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Salmon Recovery and Local Breeding Populations
A Response to Jim Buchal
The original printing of this speech in the Newsletter where this appeared was accompanied by a photo of a hatchery employee clubbing a salmon to death at the Samish River salmon hatchery in northern Washington before taking it's eggs. Buchal made much of this in his speech, attempting to argue that it was inconsistent and immoral for those concerned about "endangered" salmon to be clubbing them. This argument is equivocal. It redefines the word "endangered" to mean something useful to the conclusion he wants us to draw rather than how it actually is used by the fisheries scientists and ecologists he is attacking. It also assumes his faulty premise that hatchery and wild salmon are indistinguishable, which as we have seen, is not supported by the science.
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