NOAA to Monitor How Warm Southeast Alaskan Waters Impact Juvenile Salmon (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] July 27, 2015
This is Fish Radio I'm Stephanie Mangini. Warm water worries. I’ll tell you more after this…
Dead whales around Kodiak, Skip Jack Tuna at Copper River, Market Squid in Southeast, along with a growing algae bloom. With the supposed rumors of sea turtles and sea horses, it’s safe to say Alaska is having a heat wave in its waters, which is raising questions all over the state. Joe Orsi a NOAA fisheries biologist at the Auke Bay lab in Juneau shares his findings from the field.
“The water temperatures are still anomalously warm; around one or two degrees Celsius higher than normal off southeast Alaska. We haven't really seen a year this warm since up until strong El Nino like in 2005.”
A rise in temperature brings with it a lot of unusual visitors into Alaska’s waters...
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