The Big Fish Story That Is True

Not a very long post (yes Mark S. I do listen once in a while), but this is too good to pass up.  It has nothing to do with politics, online advertising, or telecommunications, just a good old fashioned fish story.  On the front page of Tuesday's Wall Street Journal there is an amazing story called Inside The Failure of $8 Billion Effort to Save Prized Fish.  Yes that is no typo - $8 Billion dollars to save Salmon that travel from Idaho through the Columbia and Snake Rivers, through two dams, some over land via a truck, and then on to the Pacific.  After facing dangers in the ocean, they of course return back though their original trek to lay their eggs, but not before facing fishermen, sea lions, and more scientists.

After I finished the article all I could come away with is that it looks to me like scientists are running amok with too many experiments and with a reported added price tag of up to 30% on electrical bills, maybe the dams were not such a good idea. 

I love my Salmon.  It is one of my favorite foods and in an elite food category of ones you can eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (can you think of any others?).  $8 Billion seems like a lot of waste for keeping these dams.

PardonMyFrench,

Eric