Morgan BellChinook Salmon - gone?
March 24th 2008 10:35
They're also real tasty, smoked and served on a bagel with some cream cheese.
But no more - Chinook Salmon south of Alaska have all but disappeared.
Federal Departments have been forced to close the fishing season on salmon, given that the breeding stock has crashed from a high in 2000 of almost 800 000 to just 100. To be fair, stocks have been that low in the past, but perhaps good management was the key.
Now, restaurants are going to be charging a pretty penny for salmon, so you better get used to eating canned tuna. And when that runs out, tuna-flavoured soytuna.
No one knows why the stock has diminished, but everyone's got a finger to point... strangely, another species of Chinook, one that is endangered, hasn't dropped in numbers in the same region.
Strange, isn't it? I bet there's someone diabolical behind it, like the nefarious Dr. Claw.
*this image is from the NYTimes article.
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Throwing up our hands in despair is not an option.
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Jill, it'd be foolish to point our fingers at someone without investigating... the fact that the numbers of other fish haven't dropped is curious..
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Maybe an alien spacecraft abducted them for that Restaurant at the end of the Galaxy?
/seriously/ I haven’t read all the different ideas on this yet, (no doubts it’ll go on for years too), but preliminary research has revealed that an immature Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) which had spent two winters at sea, was found in a Puget Sound beach zone, infected with bacterial kidney disease (KD).
This disease is being reported as the first of its kind in a few places and a possible No:1 suspect for now? Let’s face it there is just so much junk going into the seas these days… and I heard the other day on the radio that parts of Indonesia that should have been underwater by now due to rising seas, was in fact better off as the groundwater was being dammed up and harvested… that causes rising salinity in the seas too, doesn’t it?
But in the Siera they are pointing their fingers towards forest (mis)-management as a cause? More like mismanaged fisheries if you ask me... but that's just my view for now...
I will be back when I learn more, or may post on the results when they are finally decided.
A sad turn of events, this, whatever the cause.
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But since you did....
We love to say 'it wasn't us, it was some obscure bacterial infection that decimated that species!! Last time we counted there were at least 50 left!!!'
Guess what?? When you reduce a wild animal's numbers, it becomes even more vulnerable to 'natural' impacts - such as disease, toxins, exotic plants and animals - and dissappears without so much as a goodbye!!!
Commercial fishing is emptying our oceans. We kid ourselves in thinking it is sustainable. It's not.
Personally, I'd prefer to have sea animals than sea food.
But that's just my opinion....