I saw this on PBS — the young salmon are given a boat ride down river and dumped there where the cormorants are just waiting for them on their own little breeding ground.
“Cormorants” Do they taste like chicken? Or Salmon?
A number of years ago, these idiots came up with the idea to open up the dams and let the rushing water in the Yakima and other rivers flush the salmon smolt to the Columbia and out to sea.
Problem, the fast, rushing water became nitrogenated, killed the fish and the dead smolt piled up behind the dams on the Columbia .
Educated idiots!
The clue here is dumping the young salmon. Cormorants and other predators can figure that out and prey on the little fish.
Who is running that operation, a bunch of dummies?