As national delegations arrive in Tromso, Norway for the annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, a new report from ASF highlights successes and the conservation challenges faced by wild Atlantic salmon in Canadian and U.S. rivers.
LINK (via: ASF)
Okay, so call me a stay-at-home old cynic, but I’ve come to thinking over the past twenty years or so that flying en masse, long distances, simply everywhere, for a long chatty weekend, to save “stuff” might not be such great way of saving said stuff. There is an internet now, there’s email, there’s video conferencing and Skype, there’s beer and wine in your local hotel bar if you really have to neck some before and during a nice dinner whilst talking No-Show Salmon caused by …. er …. the sort of pesky climatic warming that a lot of people were spending huge sums on publicly dismissing and poo-pooing until only very recently and which we guys kept don’t rock the boat, diplomatically quiet about whilst arranging our next International Gathering of The Concerned Fishy Clans Conference, or a morale-boosting week in still salmon-rich Russia or Iceland….
Right. Better get outta here. Time, I think, for a reprise of that “Somebody stop me!” clip from Carrey’s The Mask….