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So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

Lots more in the papers today on what the Globe calls “the near total collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run.”

Quick background for non-British Columbians: We BCers, though no longer hewers of wood and wrestlers of bears, still love the outdoors for the most part, and the noble salmon—especially the delicious sockeye—are a keystone in [...]

Radical Conservatives Versus Conservative Radicals in the Great Salmon Debate

Salmon researchers are not a bunch of tweed-clad academics politely arguing over a cup of tea. Think sailors engaged in a bar fight instead.

The scientists who study wild salmon populations are locked in a fierce debate over salmon farms, the sea lice that thrive in them, and the destructive effect of those sea lice on [...]