There’s a crisis in the Yukon River (WAPO)

[kmudgn]

Again, not allowed to cut & paste. Hopefully a local PNW paper will reprint

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/12/03/yukon-river-salmon-climate-change/

 

[RCF]

Again, not allowed to cut & paste. Hopefully a local PNW paper will reprint

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/12/03/yukon-river-salmon-climate-change/

Seattle Times has it. They seem to post a lot of WAPO articles.

 

[wmelton]

I am currently reading a very good book on this. "Kings of the Yukon" by Adam Weymouth. Has longer form interviews of some of the same people in this article.

 

[O' Clarkii Lewisi]

New reports show crisis; trawlers catch and discard Yukon, Kuskokwim Chinook and chum salmon while smokehouses empty — SalmonState

A number of salmon runs throughout Alaska are at unprecedented lows. Catastrophic failures and fisheries closures threaten fisheries-dependent communities, food security, culture and way of life as council governing bycatch prepares to meet in Sitka

salmonstate.org

 

[Paige]

Not to menchion that the trawl fleet has more halibut bycatch than all comercial and recreational allowed catch.

The trawl fleet is the worst thing to happen to the North Pacific, pirats of the deep.