SALMON CARCASSES CLOGGING VALDEZ

The Anchorage Daily News ^ | Sept. 12, 2005 | unknown

[redhead]

VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) - This is a busy commercial and sportfishing town, and it normally smells a little ripe in late summer as unharvested pink salmon spawn and then die. But this year, residents and tourists have been holding their noses a little tighter. Millions more pink salmon than expected, most of them born at the local Solomon Gulch hatchery, migrated in from the ocean this season, overwhelming commercial seiners and processing plants.

[highlymotivated]

I want to beat the DU lurkers.

"It's Bush's fault."

[konaice]

Bush's Fault.

[hlmencken3]

More evidence of global warming!

and

We're doomed!

[brothers4thID]

I clearly recall a recent "pork" addition to an appropriations bill to help the "struggling" native salmon populations of Alaska. Hmm... in trouble are they?

[TheForceOfOne]

More bears, lots more bears.

[Mamzelle]

Shame it can't be used for fertilizer...

[DTogo]

Dang, that's a LOT of wasted ikura:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe

[babble-on]

Too-many-spawning-salmon-in-Valdez-crisis!!

Captain Hazelwood where are you when we need you?

[GoldCountryRedneck]

And this is the same Valdez that, due to the tanker accident "caused by EVIL OIL", the enviro-nazi's wailed would be "RUINED FOR GENERATIONS!"

Mom Nature takes care of Herself..

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Women and children salmon hit hardest? ;)

[Billthedrill]

Poor little guys. They bust their butts swimming against the current, spawn, and then die.

I'm thinking I must have been a salmon in a past life...

[Clemenza]

Cool. Maybe now the cost of Sockeye and Chinook will finally come down.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

oh for the love of god.... if we are not depleting the salmon we are creating pollution, or there are not enough salmon we need to make more.... Damnation you cant have it both ways.... Better too many that too few! Live with it!

[Pylon]

Sad.

[kallisti]

Nice link. Where's the quail eggs?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Lynn Kent, a water quality regulator with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said the dead hatchery fish don't appear to violate state pollution and nuisance statutes.

"We really couldn't find a good connection between those and what's happening with the Valdez situation," she said.

In recent years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Alaska fish processors for improperly disposing of fish carcasses, guts and other wastes. Spokesmen for the agency said Friday they would check whether the unharvested hatchery fish pose a pollution violation.

Funny how when the fish carcasses occur naturally, it's acceptable, (AKA the gubmint refuses to pick up the tab).

[DTogo]

"Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine invertebrates, such as sea urchins and shrimp."

Individually laid eggs of birds don't count.

[RedRightReturn]

"unharvested pink salmon"

pink?
unharvested?

Why bring race into this I suppose all the 'white, rich, upper class' salmon were all harvested first.

Get FEMA up there right away!

R3

[kallisti]

So you've never tried the quail yolks on top of ikura or uni?