Comments on: Spain: Of Sun, Siestas — and Salmon? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Sun, 12 May 2013 14:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Alastair Bland http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/#comment-1845 Alastair Bland Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:22:42 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=3217#comment-1845 Hi Jack - Thanks for the Oregon report. Marine mammals enjoy such a positive reputation that, even in cases along the West Coast of the animals impacting salmon runs (I've heard of this widely), many people prefer to overlook the problem. Of course, in most cases, humans have caused the artificially low salmon numbers in the first place. Hi Jack – Thanks for the Oregon report. Marine mammals enjoy such a positive reputation that, even in cases along the West Coast of the animals impacting salmon runs (I’ve heard of this widely), many people prefer to overlook the problem. Of course, in most cases, humans have caused the artificially low salmon numbers in the first place.

]]> By: Jack Harrell http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/#comment-1841 Jack Harrell Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:47:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=3217#comment-1841 The Internet is great! Sorry for the late post, but I just came across this story while doing research on cormorant and salmon interactions. The above stories about declining salmon are very similar to the stories we have here in Oregon, USA. Double Crested Cormorants are at record high population numbers here and are consuming 40% to 60% of outmigrating juvenile salmon. Seals and sea lions are also a major problem here - do you have any there? Well good luck on restoring those runs of Atlantic Salmon. Our salmon runs remain depressed despite habitat improvements and hatchery plants. The Internet is great! Sorry for the late post, but I just came across this story while doing research on cormorant and salmon interactions. The above stories about declining salmon are very similar to the stories we have here in Oregon, USA. Double Crested Cormorants are at record high population numbers here and are consuming 40% to 60% of outmigrating juvenile salmon. Seals and sea lions are also a major problem here – do you have any there? Well good luck on restoring those runs of Atlantic Salmon. Our salmon runs remain depressed despite habitat improvements and hatchery plants.

]]> By: Alastair Bland http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/#comment-574 Alastair Bland Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:18:26 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=3217#comment-574 Comment from the author: Aitor, thanks for the thoughts. I didn't and don't intend to bring politics into this article. Franco did---according to published literature---have an interest in both sustaining populations of salmon in Spain's rivers and in collecting data on the species. That should qualify him as both conservationist and scientist, shouldn't it? Comment from the author: Aitor, thanks for the thoughts. I didn’t and don’t intend to bring politics into this article. Franco did—according to published literature—have an interest in both sustaining populations of salmon in Spain’s rivers and in collecting data on the species. That should qualify him as both conservationist and scientist, shouldn’t it?

]]> By: Aitor http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/#comment-551 Aitor Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:38:35 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=3217#comment-551 To call Francisco Franco a "conservationist and scientist" is too much, isn't it? He, in fact, was as conservationist and scientist as Hitler or Mussolini. To call Francisco Franco a “conservationist and scientist” is too much, isn’t it? He, in fact, was as conservationist and scientist as Hitler or Mussolini.

]]> By: Patrick Cornelius http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/#comment-546 Patrick Cornelius Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:27:57 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=3217#comment-546 Almost every measure of the health of this planet has a similar story. We are at PEAK EVERYTHING (no more growth) in a global economy that requires GROWTH to operate. We are currently in the 6th Great Extinction (there have been 5 before...google it). It is caused by Man. Man is a "weed species". Very adaptable and artifically supported by the almost free energy near the surface crust. Fossil Fuels allowed the exponential increase in human population. The industrial revoloution needed to be managed and was not. Human population and reproduction MUST be optimized and managed. Frankly, it is too late. PEAK OIL, EQUILIBRIUM DISRUPTION, and the GLOBAL RELIGOUS WAR are imminent. Nothing can stop it. Man's time is over. The earth will go on without man. Extinction will occur. Most large mammals are greatly at risk including Man. Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news for you. But the fish will appreciate it. REFERENCES: Gaia Hypothesis Dr. Lovelock http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming overview PEAK OIL Hirsch Report Almost every measure of the health of this planet has a similar story. We are at PEAK EVERYTHING (no more growth) in a global economy that requires GROWTH to operate.

We are currently in the 6th Great Extinction (there have been 5 before…google it). It is caused by Man. Man is a “weed species”. Very adaptable and artifically supported by the almost free energy near the surface crust. Fossil Fuels allowed the exponential increase in human population. The industrial revoloution needed to be managed and was not. Human population and reproduction MUST be optimized and managed. Frankly, it is too late. PEAK OIL, EQUILIBRIUM DISRUPTION, and the GLOBAL RELIGOUS WAR are imminent. Nothing can stop it. Man’s time is over. The earth will go on without man. Extinction will occur. Most large mammals are greatly at risk including Man.

Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news for you. But the fish will appreciate it.

REFERENCES:

Gaia Hypothesis Dr. Lovelock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming overview

PEAK OIL Hirsch Report

]]> By: George Luis Chang http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/06/spain-of-sun-siestas-and-salmon/#comment-524 George Luis Chang Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:30:25 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=3217#comment-524 Just a a quick note to say that I do not free commercial fishermen of their share of the blame for the decline of the Atlantic salmon. It is evident that they have played a large part in the decline of Atlantic salmon populations throughout Europe. Pollution, dams and even altered behavior of natural preditors such as cormorants have all played an important part in this decline. But my point is that given the critical situation of Atlantic salmon populations in Spain, sport fishermen simply cannot continue killing fish and thinking it does no harm. Just a a quick note to say that I do not free commercial fishermen of their share of the blame for the decline of the Atlantic salmon. It is evident that they have played a large part in the decline of Atlantic salmon populations throughout Europe. Pollution, dams and even altered behavior of natural preditors such as cormorants have all played an important part in this decline. But my point is that given the critical situation of Atlantic salmon populations in Spain, sport fishermen simply cannot continue killing fish and thinking it does no harm.

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