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database, there are nearly 5,000 businesses both large and small, related to 

 sportfishing in the Northwest They are located throughout every congressional district. 



These disappearing fish represent lost, renewable dollars to this region. Salmon 

 fishinq dollars are salmon fishing dollars. In failing to make the bold decisions 

 necessary to recover salmonids in the Columbia Basin, we are systematically 

 exporting industry to Canada!! An article written by Bill Clarke of the Northwest 

 Marine Trade Association reveals a decline in Washington license sales, with a 

 corresponding increase in Bntish Columbia for the last several years. In one year, 

 (1991) $58 million dollars left the state of Washington to be spent north in pursuit of 

 Salmon 



The collapsing stock numbers are a disaster to the Northwest economy as well Let 

 us examine the recreational salmon fishery at Buoy 10 in 1987, a year when the high 

 numbers of adult returns were a direct translation from the years of high flow in spill in 

 the mid-1980's According to figures supplied by PFMC, the Buoy 10 recreational 

 fishery (OR, WA, and area 4B add-on) created local personal income impacts of over 

 $8 million dollars in a fishery that lasts, on average, four weeks!! 



Not included in the eight million dollar figure are the other expenditures for the fishery, 

 such as tackle, boats, motors, trailers, rods, reels, food, beverages and other 

 purchases that support our industry. Nor do these figures reflect ANY other 

 recreational fishenes that the Columbia supplies such as Spnng Chinook or Steelhead 



Contrast these figures with the personal income impacts from 1993 of $2.9 million. A 

 nearly 2/3 reduction is directly related to the decline in status of the Columbia River 

 stocks BPA, State & Tribal Agencies and the Bevan Team recognize and 

 acknowledges that the operation of the hydro-system is a major destroyer of juvenile 

 and adult migrants. 



The relevant question we must ask is ng{ "How much will it cost to save our salmon?" 

 The real question is "How much will it cost to do nothing?" 



Salmon closures, alone, will not restore the Columbia's historically famous fisheries 

 NSIA and anglers do not want to fight over or harvest the last fish, and have 

 supported restrictions on gear, harvest timing, and catch and release to protect weak 

 stocks However, cutting back on harvest, year after year, without addressing the root 

 of the problem, is the same as making the "Victim" pay for restitution. 



The National Marine Fisheries Service Snake River Recovery Recommendations fail to 

 address many of the fundamental changes that are necessary for healthy salmon 

 populations. In addition to a reliance on barging rather than in-stream migration, 

 (through flow and spill regimes) the plan still only "tinkers" with the hydro system, with 

 no accountable modification schedule for the dams. 



