[tgarr]

At first I thought this was just more global warming stuff. But that's not the story. I never could figure why the fish never came back after all this time. This seems to make sense.

[Argus]

The relative densities of phytoplankton and zooplankton are the key.

[VaBthang4]

"Is Climate Change Killing Our Fish?"

WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stylin19a]

The article gives mulitple and diverse potential reasons for the reduction in fish life.

Mybe...just maybe the title should be"
"Dead Fish Cause Climate Change"....

[Clint Williams]

BTW, since nobody else has said so: Welcome to FreeRepublic

[connectthedots]

Salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest are the highest in several decades, and guess what? No dams have been removed. How could this happen? If dams were the problem, the fish runs would have disappeared decades ago.

[Joe Boucher]

Aren't they still taking barges from N.Y. out into the ocean a few hundred miles and dumping every bit of vile from N.Y. into the SEA?
And the ocean is having problems? Well DUH.

[Ramius]

Overfishing is the key. The same thing is happening in Alaska. Modern fishing methods have simply become exceptionally efficient, and in even the best of the fishing grounds, nature is not keeping up with our ability to harvest.

I am certainly no eco-freak. I am on the side of the fisherman. But today's catcher-processor boats are just too effective and there are too many of them.

What is needed is more farm-raising of fish and shellfish, but the eco-freaks are fighting this everywhere it starts up. But just as the demand for meat would not be met by hunting wild game without wiping out whole game populations, the world demand for fish cannot be met anymore by hunting in the wild. We can farm it, just like we did with cattle so many years ago.

My .02

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[JimRed]

Here on the New Jersey coast our local paper publishes a fishing column. Recently the writer spoke with party boat skippers who said that though whiting are scarce, cod are increasing on the inshore wrecks.

Striped bass are abundant as well. The fish seem to have natural cycles; bass were scarce 10-15 years ago but whiting were common.

When stocks of a particular fish are low, blame tends to be placed upon the recreational fisherman. But the commercial guys are in it for a living, and adjust to fish for whatever is profitable at the time.