Salmon News Reaches East Coast

Consumers are starting to wake up to the fact that salmon is more expensive-- I wonder why?  Oh yeah, the close of the Oregon and California fisheries due to dams, warmed waters, and less food available to them.

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THE first chinook salmon from Alaska’s Copper River arrived in Seattle last month, for shipment to fish counters throughout the country. With the commercial chinook season in California and most of Oregon canceled for the first time in 160 years, Alaska chinook were going for record prices: $40 a pound for fillet.

Here's today's full article from the New York times.

Will salmon be like gas, where we only begin to think about alternative ways of doing things when we get hit in the wallet?  Or could we possibly act sooner, take some hard necessary steps now, avoid playing yo-yo with fisheries management, and let our kids enjoy salmon fishing and eating like we did?

I don't want to be in the position of telling my sons what a salmon WAS, because there aren't any of them around anymore...