A good read but still doesn't seem to provide any answers for how salmon are going to deal with the relatively massive changes in climate and habitat in the past few generations and going forward. It's one thing to say that wild salmon are resilient and go through natural cycles of large/small returns but it's another to predict how they will deal with these new hurdles (global warming, infectious disease via farming, habitat degradation, etc) which are all at their highest levels in centuries. Natural cycles do occur in nature all the time. It's the unnatural ones that we can do something about.
You nailed it Roland. Then next 100 years will make it or break it for a lot of species. Time for us to all wake up to this unfolding reality!
To this day, no one can explain why the Fraser Sockeye run 2 years ago was the largest on record. Game on.
I believe that even if man wiped out all life on earth including man, some kind of life form will appear again and continue on.
I agree. Just as life evolved over billions of years in the past it would most likely do so again given enough time. That said, I'd much rather man just NOT wipe out all life on earth and not bother testing out this hypothesis.