Inland Fisheries Ireland Issues Pacific Pink Salmon Alert
Russian hatchery pinks are showing up in Irish rivers. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), the state agency responsible for the protection and conservation of freshwater fish …
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Not So Pretty In Pink
A detailed analysis by Craig Medred of the increasing body of evidence that the massive influx of hatchery pink salmon is crowding out wild salmon …
Deprivation diet?
Alaska’s decades-long bonanza of pink salmon has now been fingered as one of the likely suspects in a roller-coaster decline in the size of four …
Not So Pretty In Pink
Researchers say voracious pink salmon are thriving at other species expense. Pink salmon are wildly abundant in odd-number years and less abundant in even-number years. They comprise …
How To film Pink Salmon Underwater Using Action Cameras
Travel the wild coast of Alaska for adventure and underwater photography with the Wild and Exposed podcast team. Michael Mauro and Mark Raycroft explore how …
Double Whammy
Global warming and hatcheries pumping billions of salmon into the North Pacific Ocean are combining to change the very nature of Alaska sockeye salmon, according to …
What happens when wild salmon interbreed with hatchery fish?
An intervention is needed to address Alaska’s hatchery addiction. A research project by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game looking at chum and pink salmon runs …
Scientists suggest new threat to endangered B.C. orcas: pink salmon
Over the years, scientists have identified dams, pollution and vessel noise as causes of the troubling decline of the Pacific Northwest’s resident killer whales. Now, …
Alaska sport fishing groups fight boost to hatchery production
In a long-fought battle in Alaska fisheries, private nonprofit hatcheries release hundreds of millions of juvenile pink salmon each year into Prince William Sound. The …
Increase of pink salmon may be leading to the decline of kings
Pink, chum and sockeye salmon have been doing really well over the past few decades. A new study published in Marine and Coastal Fisheries finds in the …