And the hatchery program on the Squamish was terrible?
All those groups you talked about sure hated it, right?
Hatchery program on the Vedder, bad?
What have you people got against a program to re build the stocks.
And by the way DFO told the Steelhead Society and other groups that the Thompson River Steelhead were doomed and here we are now seeing it.
Agreed. Only a very few groups who continue to fight the good fight for Thompson steelhead. SSBC, BCFDF, BCFFF and the Kingfishers.lol...sounds like someone has been kingfishered a couple times.... you don't know much about that particular organization then.... speculation at best....
You mean Kamloop's toilet? ;-)Does anybody know anyone anywhere who has ever examined the water chemistry of the Thompson river?
That is a good point.You mean Kamloop's toilet? ;-)
Thanks Derby. What would really help is to rally support in CORRECTLY diagnosing the reason for the declining stocks. I keep hearing and reading that it is a bit of a mystery but when I apply rain chemistry trends to well known stream ecology science the mystery is not so suspenseful. In this area salmon carcasses recently started decomposing at three times the rate as the past two decades. Algae species has changed all over the island, even in my well water. Now stream invertebrates are starting to repopulate local streams. Guess what, the Stamp river now has a remarkable increase in juvenile s/h!!! It's all got to be linked together.thanks For all the great info fishmyster.. good stuff u have been working on...a very important part of fish recovery... let me know if I can be of help in anyway
Volcanos are most likely the greatest influential factor in contaminating the rain. Attached is a rain chemistry chart from Saturna island. Mt Pinatubo erupted in June of 1991 and by 1994 our rain ph drops down to 3.5. Our rain ph now is averaging 5.6!!! I cant imagine any other force that could cause such a pulse in acidity other than mother nature.Fishmyster,
Thanks for the details and some excellent points about "bio-loading in the "T". The acid rain we have been experiencing for the past 30 years - origin is East Asia? or other?
Cheers
Fin
None of them yet. Hunting season is over so I will get back to it.Fishmyster, have you contacted the scientists a few of us suggested to further this very interesting theory?
Hope you do ...
http://www.patagonia.com/blog/2016/12/doubling-down-on-the-broken-promise-of-fish-hatcheries
Here's a little writeup on hatcheries in the US ,if anyone's interested
Volcanos are most likely the greatest influential factor in contaminating the rain. Attached is a rain chemistry chart from Saturna island. Mt Pinatubo erupted in June of 1991 and by 1994 our rain ph drops down to 3.5. Our rain ph now is averaging 5.6!!! I cant imagine any other force that could cause such a pulse in acidity other than mother nature.
Are you sure about that?What your talking about is acid rain and we know the cause of that and no..... volcanos are not to blame.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/acid-rain/