Fishermen, Scientists Struggle With Disappearance of Alaska King Salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Anchorage Daily News] by Nathaniel Herz - December 29, 2017
There's an unsolved fish mystery playing out right now along a rugged, 300-mile stretch of Southeast Alaska coastline: What's killing off the thousands of king salmon that, at an increasing rate, swim out to sea and don't return to spawn?
"There's a big ocean out there," said Tad Fujioka, a commercial fisherman in Sitka. "And it's kind of a black box."
Alaska fishermen and scientists don't know what, exactly, is causing king salmon returns to plummet ...
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