After a two year ban on commercial fishing the result is another large drop in the fall Chinook run. 2008 was the record low for returning fish, and it appears that 2009 will be lower still.

More troubling is what few fish returning are mostly hatchery fish and it appears the wild Chinook of Oregon and California will be the latest addition to the endangered species list.

… which will bring out the celebrities and Hare Krishna’s – who’ll alternate attempts to self immolate …

You can count on a third year of fishing restrictions, that proclomation is only a formality.

I call it “last fish conservation” – where everyone eats everything until there’s only a single desiccated specimen left, then we make hideous noises and point at each other with great animosity.

The really fun part will be how this plays out with the Paramount Farms – Dianne Feinstein review of the “sloppy science” that suggests the Delta is in trouble. It won’t be some unknown baitfish causing the pumps to grind silent …

… now it’ll be Sushi.

The voting public has always grappled with some small inedible member of the food chain causing civic disturbance – but once they realize there won’t be any more sake (salmon sushi), all those minor celebs from Malibu and Beverly Hills will be armed with torchs, swords, and iced lattes.

… and the next Governor will watch his predecessor’s Water Pact unravel while the studio execs and Silver Screen nobility make small talk about eating everything in Maine, or Alaska.

We’ll take some serious lumps in the press, it is our karma.

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