Making Salmon by Joseph E. Taylor III

Author:Joseph E. Taylor III
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780295989914
Publisher: University of Washington Press

Congress instead tried to mitigate damage through technology. In 1938 it passed the Mitchell Act, which instructed the Bureau of Reclamation and Corps of Engineers to work with the USBF and, after 1940, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), to save salmon. Dam builders received carte blanche to impound rivers, and fishery agencies relied on the time-honored solutions of fishways, irrigation screens, and hatcheries to ameliorate change. This time, however, they also adopted more radical measures. Grand Coulee was going to block over 1,000 miles of spawning habitat, and additional dams would inundate or obstruct many more miles. Administrators decided to offset the loss of habitat by actively transplanting upper-river stocks into streams closer to the Pacific.74

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