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Seeing Chinook as Indicators

Posted on September 30, 2008

This article was written by Alex Steffen in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.To get a sense of how complex and tangled the task is of managing the planet, consider Chinook salmon.The Sacramento River fall Chinook salmon run, which had been recovering in recent years, has suddenly collapsed, and no one seems to know why:The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska left gloomy fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations and coming up dry....Fishermen think the Sacram...

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