I've been watching over the last couple of months as the stories kept cropping up on the salmon runs in Oregon and California, and I wonder just how soon this problem (the fish simply vanish) will occur here. This comes from Grist, BTW.
This story today, tells of the season simply being cancelled in Oregon and California because there are no more fish to catch.
Sketch from www.thesalmon.com.ar
Braking a CatchSalmon fishing season canceled in California, heavilyProbably soon, as this story tells about the payoff so the dams will stay up, the river will still be used for agriculture, and well the fish, it sucks to be you.
restricted elsewhere
For the first time ever, the Pacific Fisheries
Management Council has voted to cancel the salmon fishing season off the coast
of California and much of Oregon due to exceedingly low populations of chinook salmon in the
Sacramento River area. The restrictions apply to commercial as well as
recreational fishers; only a catch of 9,000 hatchery-raised coho salmon will be
allowed this season by sport fishers off central Oregon. However, since the
imperiled salmon that make up the Sacramento River run rarely venture as far
north as Washington, restrictions there were not as harsh. The council voted to
allow a combined commercial, sport, and tribal catch of 45,000 coho salmon and
77,500 chinook salmon this year off the Washington coast. But overall, the
outlook is still quite bleak. "Collectively, from Canada to Mexico, this will be
the worst ever season off the West Coast," said Don McIssac of the PFMC.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency and
requested federal financial assistance for the state's fishing industry.
This story today, tells of the season simply being cancelled in Oregon and California because there are no more fish to catch.
Sketch from www.thesalmon.com.ar
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The Chinook Salmon is not the only species that is disappearing before our eyes. I have read many blogs and news forums about how we can fix the environment, solve global warming and the energy crisis but they all just seem to be tinkering with the symptoms to me
If we take a step back from the Chinook salmon issue and consider man’s relationship with the environment in general then I believe we can see a cause. Mans desire for more and more puts increasing pressure on natural habitats. Forests are cut down, and pesticides used in the name of profit. But it is not one mans desire that drives this, but all of ours, and the only changes that will help are the ones we make within. Michael Laitman says this much better than I can: “The only thing we need to do is balance ourselves with nature"
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