Thursday
Dec232010
The Salmon People
Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 12:02AM "The Salmon People" is a documentary about the struggle of Alaska's Natives to survive without Chinook salmon while corporations catch their fish and dump them overboard as trash in the quest for fish sticks and the filet-o-fish sandwich.
And the beat goes on.
A record amount of chinook salmon bycatch by the trawl fleet in the Gulf of Alaska pollock fishery this fall has triggered another consultation under the Endangered Species Act.
Although the initial estimate of 58,336 chinook in the Gulf has been revised down to 52,401, the total is still well above the threshold of 40,000 fish that requires consultation under the ESA.
LINK (Via: The Alaska Journal of Commerce)
Reader Comments (1)
You just wonder how salmon can survive. There just up against so many odds. I really don't see why the commercial fisheries can use hatchery fish that are reared in concrete holding ponds. #'s of populations are dying in the ocean. The Ocean can't produce the # of fish it needs as populations grow.