Beamish and Riddell's Gulf of Alaska Salmon Ocean Survival Research Project

[Peahead]

https://www.timescolonist.com/islan...GtW4E3lkG8QsxAL7FCvxKsIw8Rq0M29Bu7Gi5vpf5qwDU

 

[Dave]

Isn't this the study aa thought was worrisome because Dr. Beamish has, in the past, advocated for fish farming?

Sounds like a winner to me.

 

[Fishmyster]

Seems like they are spending a lot of money to drive away from an area that been neglected for years being freshwater ecology. Did they already fill the gap in knowledge why most juvenile salmon don't ever leave Georgia strait?
Here we have a coastal die off of freshwater invertebrates and ecology so we need to jump into a boat and drive as far away from this problem as possible because here we will be expected to do something about it!! This fits too.

 

[Dave]

Just a thought, have you pursued your freshwater ecology theories in other salmon bearing counties; ie any idea how stream invertebrates are doing in say, Kamchatka, Iceland, or Norway. How about Eastern Canada?

 

[Fishmyster]

No but I will try google some stuff right now.

 

[wildmanyeah]

https://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/desperately-seeking-chum-salmon-returns-1.23528406

Apparently they do look at water chemistry a bit

Don’t beat me up just sharing it

 

[Fishmyster]

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No but I will try google some stuff right now.

I should have said yes but couldn't find much. Honestly there doesn't seem to be much for consistent long term monitoring done anywhere for stream invertebrates just fragments and spot sampling. Some of the best was on the Thompson river 1974-1993. It ceased right when everything started to die off so nobody correctly monitored the change.

 

[Fishmyster]

https://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/desperately-seeking-chum-salmon-returns-1.23528406

Apparently they do look at water chemistry a bit

Don’t beat me up just sharing it

That report only claims development around cultas lake changed the chemistry there and killed off that run but it doesn't specify how. It also doesn't discuss the heavy acid rain which was acidifying streams all over the coast at the same time.