Why letting salmon escape could benefit bears and fishers
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 16:02
in Biology & Nature
New research suggests that allowing more Pacific salmon to spawn in coastal streams will not only benefit the natural environment, including grizzly bears, but could also lead to more salmon in the ocean and thus larger salmon harvests in the long terma win-win for ecosystems and humans. In a new article and accompanying synopsis published April 10 in the online, open-access journal PLoS Biology, Taal Levi and co-authors from UC Santa Cruz and Canada investigate how increasing "escapement"the number of salmon that escape fishing nets to enter streams and spawncan improve the natural environment.