A Beautiful School of Chinook Salmon
Photo by Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife
Orvis Guest Blog
By Pete Frost, Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center
Protecting Wild Fish in Partnership with Orvis
“Salmon ran in runs so thick you couldn’t see the bottoms of rivers, so thick people were afraid to put their boats in for fear they would capsize, so thick they would keep people awake at night with the slapping of their tails against the water, so thick you could hear the runs for miles before you could see them.”—Derrick Jensen
This scene —a West Coast stream teeming with wild salmon—was once commonplace.
But now, everything has changed….
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