On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:53:16 -0800,
bookburn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7327524.stm
>
>The news article describes what's happening in N. California and
>Oregon, nothing about Alaska, but could it happen here, too?
Last summer I attended a symposium put on by
Japanese scientists studying climate change and
impacts on sea life. A paper given by a Hokkaido
University professor suggested that Alaska salmon
may benefit from global warming. The Bering and
Chukchi seas will become more productive for
salmon as temperatures warm. Ocean acidification
from fossil fuel burning is another concern that
won't be beneficial.
>Oh, well, we'll still have our tourist, petroleum, mining, and timber
>industries. Natives may actually come out ahead if commercial fi****ng
>was limited and subsistence given priority, even on the big rivers.
Commercial fi****ng is the largest private sector
industry in those big rivers. Who do you think is
doing most of the fi****ng if not the people who
live there?
>Probably the commercial fishermen from down below will head toward
>Alaska even more than before.
Two words: limited entry
> Foreign processing fleets with billions
>of mouths to feed will be testing the US Coast Guard.
They will lose.
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Tim
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