#998062 - 12/05/18 08:27 AM
Shock: Canada's Chinook are Circling the Drain
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River Nutrients
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The Guardian: 'We're sounding the alarm': half of Canada's chinook salmon endangered. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/05/canada-chinook-salmon-endangeredDrives me absolutely insane to read sentences like (paraphrasing), "Some populations are thought to be down to around 200 fish." Considering that some, significant percentage of all runs gets sucked up in nets in the open ocean, each of those populations is being robbed of recruits needed to meet even pathetically low escapement goals. The writing's been on the wall for a while. Now that Canada's finally crying foul, will we heed what has been written, or will we continue to harvest our way to a recovery that looks a lot more like gradual, planned extinction? I see no reason to honestly expect anything but the latter.
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#998065 - 12/05/18 08:35 AM
Re: Shock: Canada's Chinook are Circling the Drain
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River Nutrients
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Canada's problem is Alaska. Nobody but Alaskans catch AK fish so nobody has a hammer. Canada got Washington's "attention" by overfishing Chinook, coho, and intercepting Fraser sockeye before they entered "sharing" waters. Their only hope for reigning in AK is to get the rest of the US to grow even one, much less a pair, and act to protect fish coastwide.
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#998080 - 12/05/18 10:22 AM
Re: Shock: Canada's Chinook are Circling the Drain
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#998086 - 12/05/18 10:49 AM
Re: Shock: Canada's Chinook are Circling the Drain
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River Nutrients
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The hatchery production in WA generally comes from recreational license holders. I doubt that the commercial guys based in WA but fishing AK are buying sport fishing licenses here, so they are getting a free ride.
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#998128 - 12/05/18 02:57 PM
Re: Shock: Canada's Chinook are Circling the Drain
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
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SHOCK?
Not!
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"Let every angler who loves to fish think what it would mean to him to find the fish were gone." (Zane Grey) "If you don't kill them, they will spawn." (Carcassman) The Keen Eye MDLong Live the Kings!
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