California’s salmon fishery reopens this spring after three years of devastating closures — and the forecast is the strongest in years. But the comeback story isn’t about wet winters or dam removals. It’s about what happened on April 11, 2023, when Kamchatka’s Shiveluch volcano blasted iron-rich ash across the North Pacific, replenishing vital dust to the ocean pastures where salmon put on 95 percent of their body weight. From Alaska’s 119 million pink salmon to California’s record jack returns, the 2023 ocean-entry cohorts are coming home strong everywhere. The volcano told us what the medicine is. The question is whether we’ll act before the next silent years return.
“I am haunted by waters” And at long last I have good news for those of us who love Atlantic Salmon and share a particular…
Our Deadly Drought of Dust: How the Hegemony of Grass Is Killing Our Blue Planet For 71% of Earth, the drought that matters most isn’t…
When the Dust Blows, the Salmon Grow Why Replenishing Nature’s Missing Dust Is the Key to Restoring North Pacific Fisheries The image above shows the…
Inspired by the Persian Poet Rumi (born September 1203) Didn’t I Tell You? (The Ocean Speaks, Now) Didn’t I tell you I am the Ocean…
Ocean pasture restoration flips the old “drop in the ocean” metaphor on its head. By restoring missing mineral dust with nature-based techniques, we revive marine ecosystems, combat acidification, and cool the climate—proving every single drop and mote of dust can be made to truly count.
Briefing Paper: We Must Declare an Ocean Emergency to Restore California’s Fisheries The Decades-Long Collapse of California’s Ocean Health and Commercial Fisheries Seventy years ago,…
The next step is restoring our ocean pastures! I did an AI search on the decline of dust blowing across the Pacific from China and…
Bring Back The Fish In a bold, inspiring move, the European Union is healing its natural world with the Nature Restoration Law. Enacted in August…
In the late 1980s, oceanographer John Martin quipped, “Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you an ice age.” Martin’s meticulous 20…
In Scotland 25,000 COP26 people are speaking ‘Bureaucratise’ about climate change They might as well be speaking Glaswegian A few are talking about the real…
New Genomics Paper proves overfishing Atlantic Cod not the key problem Declining size of Cod is shown to be simply due to the collapse of…
Newly Published Scientific Report Declares Dangers During Freshwater Life Of Salmon Is Nothing When Compared To The Collapse of Their Ocean Pastures This exhaustive research…
New International Monetary Fund report says for the good of humanity we must ‘bring back the whales’. Whale carbon, the value from a single whale…
Headlines simultaneously urge us to cower or flower over the prospect that billions are required to meet 2050 UK climate target. The talk of billions…
The tiny fish that safely manages more carbon than a rain forest They don’t do this by accident, they use their superpowers It is their…
California’s Sardine Fishery Closed For Fifth Year In A Row As ocean plankton pastures collapse Sardines on North America’s West Coast are verging upon extinction…
The majestic Giant Bluefin Tuna were once abundant across the world’s oceans Today in some major ocean pastures they are reduced to just 3% of…
The greatest voyages of discovery, exploration of the world’s seven seas began in the port of Lisbon. Today there is a new sort of pioneering…