FREEING THE ELWA Escapement Rate and Harvests The biggest threat to recovery is open ocean harvest Nearly 70 of salmon harvested are in Canadian waters 10 are harvested in Alaskan waters while only ID: 686434
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Fisheries Collapses
Technology and Food Demands
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Escapement Rate and Harvests
The biggest threat to recovery is open ocean harvest.
Nearly 70% of salmon harvested are in Canadian waters.
10% are harvested in Alaskan waters, while only
8.5% are harvested commercially in Washington.
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Other Threats in the Ocean
Global Warming
El Nino Events
Pollution
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The Advent of Industrial Fishing
The Grand Banks
Example
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New Technology and Bigger Boats
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Will the Atlantic Cod Ever Return?
Maybe not…
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The Competition
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Haddock
Grouper
Capelin
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Fisheries Collapses
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Each Fish Species Collapses
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Chilean Sea Bass/Patagonia
Toothfish
Walleye Pollock
Deep sea catch of orange
roughy
(Photo by Stephen McGowan courtesy Marine
Photobank
)
Orange
Roughy
Atlantic cod
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This project was made possible in part by a grant from
Washington’s National Park Fund.
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