Re: 鈥淲alk the talk on salmon recovery,鈥� letter, April 2.
It would be nice if the 70 employees at Cowichan Bay industrial lands were retired with federal pensions, so they wouldn鈥檛 need to worry about next month鈥檚 bills and could focus on causes and gossip.
What the retired fisheries biologist has neglected to mention is that the metal working has been going on at that Cowichan Bay location in excess of two decades and yet the chinook populations have increased over that time.
Perhaps the works are not causing harm to the fish, as there seems to be no evidence of any issues from that specific source.
A more fitting comment from an expert would be that the current problem with fish enhancement might be to tackle water levels in the Cowichan River by raising the weir. Currently, fry are trapped in pools and they might never reach the main stream if we don鈥檛 get more water in the river at critical times during the year.
A trained professional scientist should make public statements based upon all available facts instead of supporting a misleading and uninformed group with an ulterior motive, other than fish conservation.
Brian Thacker
Cowichan Bay
