Warming could fry salmon
The region's signature fish can't survive in warm waters; they're already feeling the heat.
By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian (January 6, 2008)
Salmon survived massive dams and fishing fleets, but now they're feeling the heat of global warming -- and it's likely to hammer them as hard as anything they've faced.
Although the government has spent billions to save salmon, warming will probably force even more extreme measures in coming years at the expense of water and power for people.
Biologists who have spent their careers watching over the fish said temperatures expected to rise an average of 0.2 to 1 degree per decade over the next century will probably wipe out some fragile runs of salmon. Snow will fall as rain instead, feeding floods that flush away their eggs. Heat waves will multiply, leaving less refuge to which they can retreat.
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