And because there is no way to tell a Klamath-spawned salmon from one from any other river once the fish reach the ocean, the fishery council says it has no choice but to restrict all salmon fishing along 700 miles of coast.

ECONOMIST: Saving the fish of the Klamath river

Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean and founder of the Blue Ocean Institute, says only the U.S., Australia and New Zealand have reasonably good fishery management.

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