Book contents
- Riverflow
- Riverflow
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Foreword: Marching Away from Folly
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Publicum Ius Aquae
- 1 Instream Rights and the Public Trust
- 2 Instream Rights and Unreasonable Use
- 3 Instream Rights and Dams
- 4 Instream Rights and Watershed Governance
- 5 Instream Rights as Federal Law Recedes
- 6 Instream Rights as Water Temperatures Rise
- 7 Instream Rights as Sea Levels Rise
- 8 Instream Rights and Groundwater Extraction
- 9 Instream Rights and Old Canals
- 10 Instream Rights and Water as an Investment
- 11 Instream Rights and International Law
- 12 Instream Rights and Irrigation Subsidies
- 13 Instream Rights and Pacific Salmon
- 14 Instream Rights and Hatchery Fish
- 15 Instream Rights as Indigenous Rights
- Conclusion Policy Disconnected from Science
- About the Author
- Index
13 - Instream Rights and Pacific Salmon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2021
- Riverflow
- Riverflow
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps
- Foreword: Marching Away from Folly
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Publicum Ius Aquae
- 1 Instream Rights and the Public Trust
- 2 Instream Rights and Unreasonable Use
- 3 Instream Rights and Dams
- 4 Instream Rights and Watershed Governance
- 5 Instream Rights as Federal Law Recedes
- 6 Instream Rights as Water Temperatures Rise
- 7 Instream Rights as Sea Levels Rise
- 8 Instream Rights and Groundwater Extraction
- 9 Instream Rights and Old Canals
- 10 Instream Rights and Water as an Investment
- 11 Instream Rights and International Law
- 12 Instream Rights and Irrigation Subsidies
- 13 Instream Rights and Pacific Salmon
- 14 Instream Rights and Hatchery Fish
- 15 Instream Rights as Indigenous Rights
- Conclusion Policy Disconnected from Science
- About the Author
- Index
Summary
When Canada and the United States entered into the Pacific Salmon Treaty in 1985, a primary mutual concern was to curtail overfishing at sea to avoid depletion of salmon stocks originating in Canadian and US freshwater streams. To further the conservation of such salmon stocks, the Pacific Salmon Treaty contains provisions to encourage and reward Canada and the United States for increasing the “production” of salmon originating in their respective streams.
To increase the production of salmon, Canada and the United States often focused on artificial propagation in hatcheries rather than preserving spawning grounds and natural habitat for wild salmon. This focus on hatcheries to produce salmon coincided with a period of more intensive onstream dam building, more intensive logging of slopes adjacent to and upland of salmon spawning grounds, and more intensive diversion of water out-of-stream for farms and cities that reduced instream flow. The artificially propagated salmon from hatcheries were intended to replace the wild salmon runs displaced because of habitat loss due to dams, logging, and diversions.
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- RiverflowThe Right to Keep Water Instream, pp. 222 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021