According to todays Sacramento Bee California officials are considering an all-out ban on Salmon fishing in California this year because of record low spawning run in 2007.

Well we've had that kind of measure in France for years .....

I'm not a salmon fisherman so I pretty much don't care.

But the fact is that it's not so much the fishermen who killed the resource here (even if they had the bad habit of killing whatever they caught).

There are just too many dams and various obstacles on our rivers to let the salmons access their spawning areas.

There in lies the problem.  I am not a Salmon fisherman either.  But we all should care because it my not end here.  We have already seen the closure of several lakes to all fishing in Southern California.  This is just the kind of things that the "Enviromentalists" willl latch onto and attack all fishing.

the atlantic salmon in lake ontario became extict at one point in the late 1800s due to overfishing and dam building industrialization ect...  I'd hate to see it happen again somewhere

Ok. Lets try this another way.  There are no new dams endangersing these Salmon and California is pretty industrialized.  According to their own article the predicted Salmon population is the same for 2007 as it was in 1992.  Over that stretch there have been up and down years.  I am not advocating letting the Salmon go extinct.  My point is just that once you start closing lakes and fishing season you give the extreme enviromentalist another weapon to use against all fisherman.  There are more effective ways to manage our fisheries.