for
the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife the Pacific Fishery
Management Council, The Bureau of Land Management and the Oregon Coastal
Zone Management Association. He is currently vice chairman of the PFMC.
Radtke detailed a variety of factors that have reduced the Columbia
Basin salmon economy to a shadow of its former self. At estimated
historic average runs sizes, the basin had the potential to net
fishermen $272 million in 1998 dollars at a 50 percent harvest rate.
That …
