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BillS,

This is that time of year - and almost every major market has 2-4  
ounce packages of smoked Salmon, from Alaska or BC - all about US 
$2.00 per ounce - although often 'on sale' for 50% less -

North of Oregon - the salmon are doing fine.
 From Oregon south - the oceans have been in turmoil - and 'returns'  
have been very low for the last two years -
Huge precipitation in the Oregon/Washington/NoCalifornia region -  
that seals off upwelling.
Lots of subsurface northward currents bringing in all sorts of long  
missing predators - eg, Dosidicus gigas -
a sign of the shift into the next Climate regime - as per the  
projections by Leonid Klyashtorin/AA Lyubushin book.

Sardines recolonized the NW coast after 1996- and are thriving as far  
north as BC.

Lots of folks are watching the System changes - and still having few  
in situ observations - due to funding cuts -
few explanations - as per Bill Peterson's article in the recent PICES  
Newsletter...

The San Francisco Bay/Sacramento River salmon runs were so low that  
last friday the regulators 'shut down any/all fishing this season -
The 'missing returns' were a 'surprise' to all involved - but there  
have been so many of the many fisheries shut down along the Central  
California coast that total landing are down to less than 10% of 1996  
values - something you can read in the Dick Parrish review of MPAs vs  
real world management efforts that I will send in a separate e-mail -

It is not about over-fishing - per se. It is all about water quality,  
weather, and predation.
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Gary Sharp
  Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study
  780 Harrison Road, Salinas, California 93907
  <http://sharpgary.org>
  831-449-9212
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  "The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses
  to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism
  is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
  Thomas H. Huxley



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