Survey of Pacific Northwest Juvenile Salmon Shows Empty Nets for First Time Ever
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SEATTLE TIMES] By Lynda V. Mapes - October 10, 2017
Scientists have been hauling survey nets through the ocean off the coasts of Washington and Oregon for 20 years. But this is the first time some have come up empty.
“We were really worrying if there was something wrong with our equipment,” said David Huff, estuarine and ocean ecology program manager in the fish ecology division at NOAA Fisheries. “We have never hauled that net through the water looking for salmon or forage fish and not gotten a single salmon. Three times we pulled that net up, and there was not a thing in it. We looked at each other, like, ‘this is really different than anything we have ....
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