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An Ich-y Situation for Alaskan Salmon

Posted by emily | Monday, June 23, 2008 at 5:53pm
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A few weeks ago I wrote about how this year's commercial Chinook salmon season was canceled in California and most of Oregon due to a collapse in population. Now, as LA Times reporter Ken Weiss reports, the salmon's Alaskan brethren are in trouble, this time from a parasite lovingly referred to as "Ich."

Categories: Global Warming | Keywords: alaska, chinook salmon, Climate Change, ich, kenneth weiss, king salmon, la times, pulitzer prize, rotten fruit, warmer waters, white spot disease, yukon river

What's a Salmon Lover to do?

Posted by emily | Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 4:03pm
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Yesterday's New York Times featured an eloquently urgent op-ed about the demise of wild Pacific salmon. The author, Taras Grescoe, is swearing off salmon for two simple reasons: "it's too scarce and too expensive." While wild Atlantic salmon are already commercially extinct, the commercial Chinook season in California and most of Oregon has been canceled for the first time in 160 years.

Categories: Global Warming, Overfishing, Seafood Contamination | Keywords: bagels and lox, chinook salmon, infectious salmon anemia, salmon, salmon sushi, sea lice, Taras Grescoe
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