If you follow this blog you’ve probably been reading about the Trump administration’s recent decision to pull out of an agreement to restore salmon and steelhead populations in the Columbia Basin. Here’s a good overview from OPB. Needless to say, this is terrible news for anadromous fish. I have nothing to add to this except to direct you to a YouTube video of last Friday’s ODFW commission meeting where it was discussed starting at 2:34:49. (Yes, I do watch these things.) The frustration on the part of ODFW staff and the commission was on full display. Along those same lines, a discussion starting at 1:22:33 by the commissioners about the legislature overriding their decisions was telling. We live in a political world and ODFW has little political power.