Fish People

People for fish for people
STEP into our flowing river
promote restoration
tax on fishing wishing
people fish fish people
fish rarely comment
at public meetings
propogate, educate
while nutrients migrate
ocean value returns
to the headwaters
carcasses scattered on
fertile grounds enhancing
another forest generation
each new fish in a way
multiplied day by day
by thousand projects
hundred thousand people
million dollars
hundred million fry
billion benefits
STEP up to the plate
people for fish for people
our river appreciates
terminal fisheries
recreational values
and tasty dinner
fish people people fish

(c) 2005 lemme howdt

This poem was conceived at a Salmon/Trout Enhancement Program presentation at the Umpqua Discovery Center in May 2005.