Salmon, People, and Place: A Biologist's Search for Salmon Recovery Paperback – October 1, 2013

Complete. Tell's the real story which 1025 restoration units California to Alaska continuously wish to disregard in favor of government handouts!Real story the following: North Puget Fish & Fishers Back!FIRST: NMFS fish patrols on 6-8 large (combatant) North Pacific CG cutters guided by Brit ‘Catapult’ and/or Paul Allen ‘Vulcan’ satellite monitoring of transponders on fishing boats.SECOND: WDFW enforcement of 50%+ escapement openings @ IPSFC strait & river mouths (King of Fish p241)--fee land tribals, too (over)--& illegal fish sales(Sea Cop124,130)!THIRD: TERMINATE SALMON FACTORIES to stop infecting of wilds, interbreeding, diluting of gene pools vital to wilds adapting to change, smolts eating wild fry & parr, & wipeouts of coastal ocean food by ‘feedlot’ pinks(King of Fish p164-176)/Araki Science 318/Salmon, People & Place p29)!FOURTH: No gill, tangle or pelagic nets, stiffer penalties for anglers, some marine mammal killings, more Dolly & cut-throat angling on sockeye lakes & a clean-coal GPT protecting Arctic ice, copepods salmon prey eat & farmed shellfish by reducing acid rain out of Asia. And, until wild king, silver & sockeye returns start rebounding, RESTRAINED HABITAT SPENDING!THEN, WITH RETURNS UP: “RIVER WATCHERS” (King of Fish pg 235), one for each half reach, Cherry Point north, Cherry Point south & Squalicum Creek south, who, say at $9.99K/yr., pollution test, spot poachers &, via 1-2 page quarterly reports, pigeonhole key upgrades & keep things whole locally via NSEA, PIC, Whatcom Family Farmers, etc. Monitoring county river & aquifer gages -- the latter in wells yet to be dug -- they’d key on onsite water recharges as proposed by the Washington State Ground Water Association, e.g., “summer flow duration curves” via V-notch weirs in upper drainage exits, mid-reach, 30 ft, 66% open riparian zones free of water-absorbing cottonwoods, water from adjacent aquifers, deeper/narrower/colder river bottoms vice open gravel pits (e.g., lower Nooksack), etc. By also effecting side channel extensions, silt-binding weed roots via day-lightings, armor & culvert fish barrier remediations, fertilized ovum boxes in spawning beds, farmland nitrate-grabbing trenches, slough & marsh enhancements of summer-rearing habitats & winter flood slow-water refuges, 50-ft treed setbacks feeding insects & oxalis plants to wild parr in lower reaches, etc., they’d maximize escapements to spawn where born & our salmon industry at minimal cost to tax payers!

A careful reading of this book gives a realistic, accessible glimpse of the salmon problem in the Pacific Northwest. The quality of the writing is splendid, always thoughtful and reaching to lyrical in places; it is a pleasure to read. What struck me initailly was how the clarity of writing and the depth of thought brought me to make much broader connections. This was especially true of the discussion of conceptual foundations that took me well beyond salmon. Conceptual foundations determine how we view all aspects of our world, and this book brought that home to me in a way that allowed me to see it elsewhere.Chapter 1, on place, explores deep insights into the diversity of salmon, their evolution, their relationships with the rest of the natural and human world, bringing clarity for me to ideas I had barely glimpsed before.The book seems to me, in sum, to be an elaboration of a "land ethic," and it motivated me to reread "A Sand County Almanac" in parallel with reading the second half of this book. As an explanation/amplification of the land ethic, with salmon as the focal point, this book is a worthy read for anyone interested in and concerned about conservation and environmental issues.

This is an incredibly important book. Lichatowich brings a rare mix of intellect, expertise, experience, imagination, and wisdom to bear on the question of why --despite spending billions to restore NW salmon runs –are our fish are still in trouble?The book draws upon personal reflections, science, history, and cultural critique to explore the reason for misguided policies, but Lichatowich goes further in the end to identify what exactly needs to change. Specifically, he explains what questions need to be asked of every fishery plan and what kind of studies need to be done to hold fish agencies accountable.Yet the book never gets too wonky. As a reader, I always had the sense of being guided by a man who has an almost mystical connection to salmon and rivers --to find my own deeper connection to the rivers in my own place.The book is grounded in a passionate and practical plea: to save our salmon, we must begin to do things differently.

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Jim Lichatowich has a deep understanding of salmon and steelhead. He speaks clearly about the people who threaten them and those in turn who are charged with their protection. He argues passionately for a place-based, integrated, ecological approach to their conservation (and if it's not too late - their restoration). He stresses the need to look respectfully at the past and critically our present hatchery-based system of maintaining numbers in service to harvest. Everyone who cares about our fish needs to read this book carefully and take to heart what the author has to say.

Damaged package and damaged item, missing stickers and this is suppose to be for school no times for return and refund

The overarching thesis of the book is simple but profound and is supported by a lifetime of work with salmon. The author's understanding and portrayal of how we think about salmon as the root cause of decades of mismanagement is very powerful and well supported.

Reread after many years of working in habitat restoration and was promptly reactivated. You do get worn down by incremental work. This book (and Jim too) should be mandatory reading and speaking at SERI conferences and American Fisheries Society conventions.

Well written and full of information on salmon, what was here and where we are today and in a broader sense the path western civilization has taken to demising not only salmon but the entire ecosystems of the rivers of western North America.It should be required reading for every one that has any interest in what our future generations will be left with as salmon are an indicator species. All done for the sake of supposed progress and the pursuit of making money. This may seem a dark comment but the facts are quite obvious and numbers don,t lie. Thank you Jim Lichatowich for writting this book,sad though the story is.Canada is doing just as poor a job of protecting our environment, we are just a few years behind. Daryl