Latest NOAA Surveys Off West Coast Spell More Bad News for Salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - September 1, 2017
Another NOAA Fisheries survey team has finished their spring and summer surveys off the coast of the Pacific Northwest with little evidence of juvenile coho or chinook salmon and ocean conditions that portend low abundance in the coming years.
For two decades, fisheries biologists from the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle have been studying the ecology of young salmon as they first enter the ocean. They monitor biological and physical conditions in the Northern California Current (NCC), focusing on how they impact juvenile salmon.
This year’s data had several surprises, much like the survey work done in June off the coast of Oregon.
Brian Burke, a NOAA Fisheries research biologist at the Estuarine and Ocean Ecology Program is the Ocean Team Lead for the surveys. The data they’ve gathered is not yet complete, but the anomalies were so many and so extreme, they sent a “heads-up” memo to...
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