Federal Bureaucracy Stalls Salmon Hatchery Plans
The State Department blocks a joint American-Canadian salmon hatchery on the Fraser River, leaving Washington officials to fend for themselves.
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The state department officials offer very little encouragement to the plan of Fish Commissioner Kershaw for the establishment of a joint American-Canadian salmon hatchery on the Fraser River. As a result, the department officials conclude that the federal government cannot aid the state in the protection of fish. A high official in the department said that correspondence developed the fact that negotiations for a treaty were feasible but that coincident legislation by congress and the Canadian parliament was not the proper way. He suggested an arrangement between the state of Washington and the Canadian government as the proper way to secure the ends sought.
“The federal government cannot aid the state in the protection of fish.”
The struggle for control over transboundary salmon populations has been a flashpoint in Pacific Northwest politics for over a century. Federal inaction versus local or tribal sovereignty in managing the Fraser River run remains a highly contentious issue in regional ecology and politics.
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