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.
“Who Will Speak for the Fish?” Some years ago, a great salmon scientist lay dying. He had given his entire long life to understanding the…
What is needed now is the sustained commitment to answer — not when a volcano happens to erupt, not when an Asian dust storm happens to cross the Pacific at the right moment in the right season — but deliberately, continuously, season after season, until the rivers from the Klamath to the Kenai run dark with life again.
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…
In 2013, 2015, and 2017 Alaska experienced Pink Salmon returns so extraordinary that they defied all odds, it was made to happen on purpose! We…
Russia’s largest catch of salmon in history is happening now, this 300-400 million salmon miracle is explained Last spring Mother Nature sent towering clouds of…
On the west coast of Canada, the wild salmon is a spirit animal They are revered by the people there for their endless contribution to…
Sometimes a single picture is all that is needed to confirm a scientific fact. In searching for the root of the Alaska Salmon miracle of…
Alaska scientists report just 15% of Chum survived their 5 years at sea to return home to spawn Chum salmon have been experiencing a steady…
Kamchatca Kuril Islands Volcano Raikoke Erupted On The Longest Day Of The Year Will it’s iron-rich ash, now falling on the North Pacific, be manna…
Good Maternal Nutrition Is Vital For Salmon Healthy Mothers = Healthy and More Young’uns Right now, in rivers and streams of Alaska and Canada that…
Decades of Salmon Enhancement Work Costing Billions Has Resulted In Salmon At The Lowest Numbers In History Canada has had one of the world’s most…
Collapse of ocean fish pastures and ocean ‘lean times’ sen as starvation of salmon and steelhead but some fish are worse off than others Endangered…
Alaska shuts down all King Salmon harvest in southeast region due to ‘poor ocean survival conditions’ In Oregon the headline reads, ‘Steelhead struggling home in…
Steelhead Trout, are a Pacific sister fish to the Atlantic Salmon A recent science publication links their devastating declines not to their fresh water habitat…
Salmon fishing groups have called for urgent action as an “unprecedented collapse” of salmon breaks the brave hearts of Argyll. The 2017 catch from the…
Mt. Bogoslof, an Alaskan Aleutian Island volcano is erupting with life! It’s billowing ash cloud has gone 6 miles high The mineral rich ash is…
Scarlet Sockeye Salmon Aren’t Exactly Canaries But they can and do serve the same purpose as living indicators of the health of their and our…
$16 Billion Spent To Save Pacific Salmon Has Failed, 95% Of The Salmon Lewis And Clark Reported On Are Gone A trust fund with a…
The Orca whale baby boom of 2015 where the largest number of healthy baby whales ever recorded were born is over. The University of Washington…