Where are the salmon?

Though there has been much reporting on the salmon crisis, like The Times' recent "U.S. halts commercial salmon season” and the New York Times' "The trouble with salmon,” no one has yet pointed out that the high numbers in 2002 were actually anomalous or that the increasing variability in salmon, bird and plankton populations all point to climate change as the main driving factor.

By William J. Sydeman

April 17, 2008