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Salmon Are Not Okay by Conor McCall Lewiston Tribune, July 6, 2021

As reported in the June 17 Lewiston Tribune, "Columbia Grain and the farmers it serves rely on slack water to help transport food to families around the world, (Columbia Grain President and CEO Jeff) Van Pevenage said."

But according to Idaho Rivers United: "Over the past 20 years, even grain volume has declined by more than 40 percent, and in 2017 container-on-barge shipping completed its 15-year decline to zero."

Barging also is significantly less efficient than grain traveling by truck. So the slack water might be easier for the farmers to use, but grain isn't getting food in families' homes from barging.

"It's not necessarily the dams that are causing problems," Van Pevenage said. "It's nature. It's the ocean. It's the weather. Things ebb and flow over time. It looks to me (like) the trend is really the salmon are OK."

The dams are the problem. The Snake and Columbia rivers have 34 dams in total. Alaska on the other hand has some dams but the rivers there have predators, erosion, global warming, etc.

Alaska has tons of salmon throughout the state. The sockeye salmon on the other hand are critically endangered in the Northwest.

More than 1,000 sockeye salmon making it to Redfish Lake would be an amazing year for sockeye salmon. ...

The salmon are clearly not OK.

I call on readers to support Congressman Mike Simpson's proposal and ask your state legislators to support the proposal to save Northwestern salmon.

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Ag Officials Affirm Opposition to Dam Breaching by Elaine Williams, Lewiston Tribune, 6/17/21