Provincial government taking their sweet ol' time saving salmon

D.C. Reid June 9, 2009 Times Colonist

You may have thought salmon habitat -- rivers -- was under siege. What with Fraser gravel removal killing three million pinks; the process for saving the Englishman having 33 stakeholders; and, the Toba Inlet run-of-river power by Plutonic Power carving quarries from 17 watersheds, you would be in good company.

Surprising then, to know the Constitution Act of 1867 gave responsibility for saving salmon habitat to the Department of Fisheries 142 years ago. During most of this time not much happened other than our rivers were destroyed by first growth logging, and, more recently by urbanification, etc., even though prohibitions against pollution date from way back

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