dogs and cats get to eat salmon

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ichfish15-2008jun15,0,587682.story


Alaska salmon may bear scars of global warming


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More Alaskan salmon caught here end up in the dog pot these days, their orange-pink flesh fouled by disease that scientists have correlated with warmer water in the Yukon River.

The sorting of winners and losers at Moore's riverbank fish camp illustrates what scientists have been predicting will accompany global warming: Cold-temperature barriers are giving way, allowing parasites, bacteria and other disease-spreading organisms to move toward higher latitudes.

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The emergence of disease in Alaska's most prized salmon has come as a shock to fishermen and fisheries managers. Alaskan wild salmon has been an uncommon success story among over-exploited fisheries, with healthy runs and robust catches that fetch ever higher prices at fish markets and high-end restaurants in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and London.

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The chinook salmon they pulled from the Yukon River about 700 miles inland didn't smell right. It wasn't an instant, gag-inducing stench. It was more subtle but grew into an unpleasant odor of fruit rotting in the hot sun.

More important, the flesh turned mealy. The salmon didn't dry right in smokehouses either. Instead of turning into rich red strips of salmon jerky, they turned black and oily like strips of greasy rotten mango.

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It has also been detected in recent years in rockfish and smaller noncommercial fish in Puget Sound and elsewhere off the coasts of Oregon and Washington, and in freshwater trout on Idaho farms.
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(Galveston Bay, Texas)
"Xan and Link sat on the edge of the cement bulkhead where the fleet of Vietnamese fishing boats was docked. They dangled their bare feet in the oily water, wiggling their toes under the surface. Around their ankles, the brown ocean circled and clutched, and when they lifted their feet up, their legs were marked by a thin ring of iridescence."

novel - Boat People
by - Mary Gardner



"She squatted behind a refuse pile and dangled a weighted line in the water. The water was dirty and not all the fish she caught were healthy - she spoke kindly to the damaged ones before throwing them back - but the solitary exercise in patience calmed her nerves."

novel - Demon Drums
by - Carol Severance

the writers knew years ago.
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the food chain gets shorter every day

[dorkulon]

1. Jesus.

Boy, those global warming hoaxsters are really getting crafty! :crazy:

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2. I noticed that about rock fish

the last time I had some it was "mealy" as described. The taste was not good at all. In fact, I did not even eat most of it. The cat didn't want any of it either. That right there should tell you something.

The salmon runs are non existent this year. No one seems to care how it is affecting the local Indian tribes which depend on it.

Thank you for posting this.

Kick & recommend.

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3. Wow, that's messed up. Thanks for posting this!

PB