[Eska]

I look around, see changes in the land, weather, animals myself. We also had a serious cold spell last winter, 3 weeks it was minus 65 every morn at 6am.

Back in 1950’s fishwheels caught 400 king salmon a day, today a good day is 20-30. I don’t know if its global warming or off shore intercept fishery that our govt regulates that is responsible. But if the govt doesn’t do any better job with environment than they do with the fish; we better watch & worry.

[Old Student]

“But if the govt doesn’t do any better job with environment than they do with the fish; we better watch & worry.”

Fish are part of the environment. Weather affects the fish, their food supplies, and the humans who catch and eat them, along with all the other predators out there. Watch. Worry. Watch the government! Aside from the moments of absolute horror, you’ll also find quite a few moments of slapstick comedy...

[dufekin]

You could be speaking of a natural oscillation in North Pacific ocean temperatures called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Consider this scientific paper:

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~mantua/REPORTS/PDO/pdo_paper.html

The popular press habitually mis-attributes the effects of the ongoing intensely positive phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in Alaska to “global warming.” This oscillation has run positive since flipping circa 1977; it earlier flipped to negative circa 1942, so its period is obviously quite long.

[mort56]

I was here in the fifties as well. My guess is your salmon problem has far more to do with overfishing, overbuilding and poor estuary management than global warming. The truth of the matter is when ever the Federal government, aka politics, gets involved in solving a problem, the cure is often more deadly than the disease.