Largest Salmon Run in Decades
According to officials from Olympic National Park, the Elwha River has had the largest run of Chinook Salmon in decades this fall. Salmon that had been blocked by the Elwha Dam are now able to come streaming into the Elwha River and its tributaries.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:10 PM
7 Comments:
finally some good news
Good news, perhaps...But it has nothing to do with anything Port Angeles has done.
See. That is the fun thing about these issues.
We heard the anti dam removal people, year after year, saying it was a waste of effort, and that the salmon would not return. But, reality took it's course, regardless.
Like CO2 pollution, Climate Change and Ocean acidification. People say all kinds of things, denying the obvious. But, reality takes it's course, regardless of all the rhetoric. Communities across the world suffered the "worst ever", "strongest ever recorded" storms in the last 12 months. Super Storm Sandy, Super Cyclone in India, Super Typhoon in Philippines.. and tornadoes in mid November in the US.
Reality doesn't care about stupid human excuses. As Newtonian physics stated many decades ago "For every action, there is an equal, and opposite reaction". Dig up the fossil fuels deposited over millions of years, and unleash that massive amount of energy/carbon into a finite space in a blink of geologic time, and guess what?
But, who cares?
8:40 - I care! Great post. To make the Co2 thing worse, too many unwanted people being born. In many states, many women, mostly low income, are losing access to things we took for granted, like birth control.
But what a great thing that the salmon are coming back DECADES even before the liberal scientists and engineers and the Army Corps said they would come back!
This is amazing. The Salmon returned to rivers and streams they were not reared in... Are they hatchery fish? Does this mean the Native Americans finally keep their nets out of the river for enough fish to make it up stream?
Where did the Salmon come from filling these waters? Salmon are know to return to the rearing ponds they begin life.
"Salmon are know to return to the rearing ponds they begin life."
Generally speaking, not all of them do that, they just return to waters in the area, females first, the males follow them.
@Anon 12:34
Yeah, Amazing.
Typical ignorant, stoopid, Port Angeles hillbilly comment.
How many Native Americans were involved in the factory fishing fleets that so completely decimated the once vast North Atlantic cod fisheries, as to drive them to extinction within a few decades?
How many Native Ameicans were involved in the wanton slaughter of the once vast herds of buffalos in the US mid West?
How many Native Americans were involved in the senseless slaughter-to-extinction-within-decades of the Passenger Pidgeons, whose folks were so vast as to darken the skies over the US for hours?
The list of immense environmental damage the Europeans have wrought on North America is very long.
When Europeans came to North America, the Native Americans were already here, fishing these waters. The Salmon stocks were so plentiful that early Europeans said one could walk across a bay on their backs.
So, typically, these Port Angeles hillbillies blame perceived problems of the remaining struggling salmon stocks on the relative handful of remaining Native Americans, whose populatuions were also decimated by the Europeans.
Yes. Amazing.
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