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Page 2 The Issaquah Press, Wednesday, October 14, 1992
Supporters stress hatchery’s
economic, ed
b Andrew McKean
Not only does Issaquah’s Salmon
Hatchery attract spawning fish, it
also lures millions of dollars to
Issaquah and ultimately the state’s
general fund.
When you also consider its edu-
cational role as a living laboratory,
the benefits are too great to warrant
closing the facility, supporters told
the state last week.
A group of about 70 local stu-
dents, business people, politicians
and citizens traveled to South
Seattle Community College
Wednesday to persuade the state to
take Issaquah’s hatchery off a list of
facilities slated to close by next July
1.
Issaquah and 11 other hatcheries
around Washington have been tar-
geted for closure in order to trim the
Department of Fisheries’ budget
some $16 million, or 25 percent less
than the current two-year budget.
But Issaquah’s contingent im-
plored the state to look beyond the
budget numbers to the role the
hatchery plays in Issaquah.
“It’s time to put people, tradition,
heritage, and above all the salmon”
ahead of fiscal considerations, said
Daniel Ridlon, one of a half-dozen
Issaquah Middle School students "
who attended the meeting.
Other hatchery supporters
stressed the facility’s contribution to
the local economy. The state’s fund-
ing. formula doesn’t consider the
money that the hatchery generates;
instead it. only considers the
$111,000 withdrawn from the gen-
eral fund to operate the facility ev-
ery year.
Local business leaders said that
the hatchery is really an income
generator because taxes on money
spent by visitors wind up in the
state’s general fund. The amount is
more than $111,000 annually, sup-
porters told Fisheries officials.
“If we have 200,000 people here
on one weekend [Salmon Days] and
another 200,000 the rest of the year,
my goodness, that’s a huge impact,”
said Chamber of Commerce
President Jack Porter.
Though no numbers are available,
the chamber is currently studying
the'hatchery’s'economic contribu-
tion to Issaquah.
A 1986 study of the Leavenworth
salmon run estimated that each
spring Chinook caught by anglers
was worth $180 in indirect costs.
Fisheries officials acknowledged
the local hatchery’s educational and
economic role, but stressed that
Issaquah might have to be sacrificed
in order to fund higher priorities
\\ .,
elsewhere in the state.
Acting Fisheries Director Bob
mandate is to protect, manage and
enhance the state’s salmon and
shellfish populations.
In order to do that this year, the
state wants to concentrate on threat-
ened wild salmon runs, rather than
hatchery-supported runs that aren’t
genetically unique.
The department will also spend
millions over the next two years to
resolve a tangled legal dispute over
Indian tribes’ rights to harvest the
state’s shellfish.
The state can’t justify keeping the
Issaquah facility open on the basis.
of its educational or economic con-
tributions, Turner said. The funding
mechanism isn’t designed to ac-
count for money returned to the
general fund by taxes or by sale of
salmon eggs collected at the
Issaquah hatchery.
Though Issaquah may be an ex-
ceptionLhatcheries generally get
three times more money from the
state than they contribute, Turner
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Department In a meeting on the department’
ucational role
said.
In a razor-thin budget, unpopular
Turner “0th that his department’s cuts will have to be made for the
good of salmon around the state, the
director stressed.
“If you’re asking us to go beyond
our mandate to keep an educational
facility open over a production facil-
ity, you will have to be able to ex-
plain that to the rest of the state,”
Turner told Issaquah supporters.
A task force of Issaquah mer-
chants, civic and political leaders is
meeting weekly to determine the
city’s response to the closure pro-
posal.
Last week’s fisheries meeting
was a start, said Porter, but local
leaders may have to lobby other
Sc
hool student, read her eatlon of wh lsaqua
k. A number of Issaquah students lobbied the state's Fisheries
3 budget last week. Photo by Andrew McKean.
sources, like they did to keep a trash
incinerator out of Issaquah in the
‘80s. In that case, a“ groundswell of
opposition persuaded politicians to
join the fight.
in tune they are.”
“It’s like the ‘Kick Ash’ cam-
paign a couple of years ago,” Porter
said. “They [the county] backed off.
Government goes where there’s the
least resistance. Maybe we should
try a political approach to see how
Fisheries worries that
salmon could
the next spotted owls
by Andrew McKean
Two distant and powerful legal
forces will dictate the future of Issa-
quah’s Salmon Hatchery.
The federal Endangered Species
Act and the landmark Boldt Deci-
sion on Indian fishing will de-
termine whether Issaquah’s facility
gets state funding or is mothballed.
State spending is largely a balanc-
ing of priorities, Acting Fisheries
Director Bob Turner said last week.
The state must decide which of its
resources it thinks is most important
and then fund them at an appropriate
level.
The Fisheries Department has de—
cided that protecting Puget Sound’s
native Coho runs and preparing for
a major lawsuit on tribal fishing
rights is more important than keep-
ing hatcheries open. The department
is paring down its budget in prepara—
tion for what could ultimately be-
come a battle over control of natural
resources in the state.
And Issaquah and other state-run
hatcheries could be casualties.
“We’re feeling the big threat of
the Endangered Species Act,”
Turner said. A half-dozen of Wash-
ington’s salmon runs—mostly on
the Columbia River—are already
listed under the act, which strictly
regulates habitats and puts most
fisheries matters under federal jur-
isdiction.
Turner said that Puget Sound’s
wild stocks are already in decline,
and it’s just a matter of time before
some group petitions the govern-
ment to add them to the Endangered
Species List.
“We don’t want to have the hand
of the federal government come into
play,” Turner said. “We want to get
out in front of the curve and restore
the wild stocks.”
Otherwise, Turner warned, the
Puget Sound’s Salmon could be-
come the next spotted owls, and the
feds could regulate everything from
On top of the hatchery closure fishing to Puget Sound shipping to
proposal, the state revealed last sueamside development,
week that it has proposed eliminat-
The other issue is more nebulous,
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