Saturday, April 16, 2005

Thousands of Salmon Missing

"More than 200,000 salmon should have shown up in the Columbia river to spawn by now, but only a few hundred have been seen. The absence of the wild Chinook salmon is a disturbing environmental mystery. The best case scenario is that they're being kept away by low water and high sediment levels due to the drought in the Pacific Northwest. The worst is that there has been a shortage of the krill that is essential to their diet, and they have starved while wintering out at sea."

Occam's Razor would suggest the former possibility, but the latter wouldn't surprise me one bit. I think we're due for an ecological 9/11, and I suspect it will take place at sea.
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JohnFen said...

Yeah, people around here are pretty disturbed by the salmon run this year. On the other hand -- this kind of thing has happened before, so it could be just one of those things. I don't think so, though.

Just to show what's going on, they're trying to scare the sea lions away so they won't eat what few fish are returning. I wonder what that will do to the sea lion population.

Already, they're predicting a $100 million dollar loss due to the need to divert water around generators to help the run.

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