PacifiCorp is fighting a battle over the costs of removing its four Klamath River dams versus retrofitting them.
I’ve repeatedly said the process is broken; when we only argue about the direct costs of the dams, we’re wholly ignoring the bigger picture, which includes stories like this:
CHARLESTON, Ore. — Don Yost, harbor master in Coos Bay for the past 18 years, was handed a list of seven salmon fishermen and instructed to seize their boats because they had fallen months behind in paying their mooring fees.
Yost, who knew every man on the list, quit rather than comply.
I don’t want to turn salmon fishermen into martyrs, but at a time when the almost non-existent “family farm” is trotted out every time corporate agriculture wants a tax break, why aren’t commercial salmon fishermen — many of whom <i>really are small operations</i> – the poster children for the removal of the Klamath dams?
Or, to fill the role of political spinmeister, why does PacifiCorp Want to Put Family Fishermen Out of Business?
Article source: Fishermen along the West Coast have a hard time making ends meet : National-World : Albuquerque Tribune
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