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(3) Overemphasis on further fisheries restrictions when it is not the fisheries that are the problem, 



(4) OveralL these proposals are simply very minor "tweakings" of a hydropower system that can 

 and should be more fijndamentally modified, 



(5) Finally, the whole stated goal of the program is merely to maintain "self sustaining 

 populations" and no more The recovery goal should be to reestablish and restore a viable fishery 

 by providing harvestable surpluses While this may be a higher standard than simply "fi-eezing in" the 

 current severely degraded status quo, ultimately only by restoring a viable and economically 

 productive fishery will any of the costs of these efforts ever be recovered 



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