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Solo Salmon Quest in Nome, Alaska
The biologists at the fisheries office in Nome, Alaska, gave me a tip: There were still late-run sockeye 40 miles inland on the Nome-Teller Road at the outlet to aptly named Salmon Lake. The drive was one of those peak experiences you never forget. At that latitude, the sun shines at a sharp angle all day, which makes the rust-and-umber foliage of the landscape luminous.
Two Distinct Life History Strategies of Atlantic Sturgeon in the Ogeechee River, Georgia
2. Results In total, 3104 juvenile and adult specimens from the 13 reference spawning populations were genotyped in this study. All loci were in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium in all populations after Benjamini and Yekutielli correction [44], with the exceptions of AoxD188, LS68, and AoxD170 in the Ogeechee River population. Similarly, all populations were in Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium across all loci after correction, with the exception of the Ogeechee River population (p < 0.001).
Opinion | Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act.
Guest Essay Dec. 30, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit...Ana Miminoshvili Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By John Waldman Dr. Waldman is a professor of biology at Queens College and the author of “Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor.” Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning.
To Really Understand the Ocean, We Need to Go Back in Time
Not that long ago the world’s oceans were viewed as too gargantuan for humans to influence. This view was voiced most notably in 1883 by the English biologist Thomas Huxley, who in his inaugural address to the International Fisheries Exhibition in London asserted that “all the great sea fisheries are inexhaustible”. Nowadays, such naïveté seems inconceivable.
“Historical Ecology” Can Help Us Save Our Oceans, Now - The New York Times
Opinion|To Really Understand the Ocean, We Need to Go Back in Time https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ocean-environment-pollution.html Guest Essay Sept. 20, 2022 Credit...Mark Power/Magnum Photos Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Let’s save America’s Atlantic salmon Original
AP Photo/Heather Ainsworth In this Oct. 10, 2011 photo, a Chinook salmon fights it’s way towards a barrier in the Beaverdam Brook at the Salmon River Fish Hatchery in Altmar, N.Y. , The U.S. Geological Survey undertakes efforts to restock Atlantic salmon to Salmon River and Lake Ontario, bringing back the popular game fish to go along with a robust population of western salmon species. The Beaverdam Brook is a tributary of the Salmon River.
Welcome back, sharks - really: Why we’re seeing more encounters between humans and the sea creatures
“Shark Week,” the annual summer festival of television programs, has captured the popular imagination of America by navigating between the fascinating biology of sharks and the hyperbole of danger that’s been cemented in our collective consciousness at least since “Jaws.” Nonetheless, real shark attacks occur and are seemingly becoming more common.
North American diadromous fishes: Drivers of decline and potential for recovery in the Anthropocene
John R. Waldman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6989-0142 and Thomas P.
Nome Alone
The biologists at the fisheries office in Nome, Alaska, gave me a tip: There were still late-run sockeye 40 miles inland on the Nome-Teller Road at the outlet to aptly named Salmon Lake. The drive was one of those peak experiences you never forget. At that latitude, the sun shines at a sharp angle all day, which makes the rust-and-umber foliage of the landscape luminous.
Potential Solar Replacement of Hydroelectricity to Reopen Rivers: Maine as a Case Example
FEATURE Shailesh Sharma Corresponding Author shailesh.sharma@dec.ny.gov orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-4070 Queens College, CUNY 65‐30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY, 11367 USA Natural Heritage Trust of New York and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY, USA Correspondence Email: shailesh.sharma@dec.ny.gov Search for more papers by this author This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting,...
Opinion: Let the Naugatuck River run silver again
By John Waldman Published 9:39 am EST, Friday, December 4, 2020 The Naugatuck River in Ansonia, south of the Kinneytown Dam. The Naugatuck River in Ansonia, south of the Kinneytown Dam. Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Photo: Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 The Naugatuck River in Ansonia, south of the Kinneytown Dam. The Naugatuck River in Ansonia, south of the Kinneytown Dam. Photo: Brian A.
Opinion: Let the Naugatuck River run silver again
John Waldman Dec. 4, 2020Updated: Dec. 4, 2020 9:39 a.m. The Naugatuck River in Ansonia, south of the Kinneytown Dam. Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media Old timers say that in spring, when the forsythia or “shadbush” blooms, the shad are in the rivers. There was a time when shad and other migratory fish swam up New England rivers in such great numbers that the waters “ran silver” with their flashing bodies.
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Opinion | ‘The Wrong Mine for the Wrong Place’ (Published 2019)
Opinion|‘The Wrong Mine for the Wrong Place’ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/opinion/pebble-mine-alaska-trump.html A proposed Alaskan mine threatens the planet’s largest spawning ground for sockeye salmon and lays bare Trump's gaslighting of American sportsmen. Credit...Donald Trump Jr./Instagram Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source
Many hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to rivers and fish populations. Why not take down these aging structures, build solar farms in the drained reservoirs, and restore the natural ecology of the rivers? By John Waldman • August 6, 2015 Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution.
Maine could magnify its allure by removing more dams
Maine Voices: State could magnify its allure by removing more dams from its rivers. Losing a bit of hydropower in order to allow fish migrations and boost outdoor tourism is easily worth the trade-off. On any summer weekend, Interstate 95 north is clogged with cars and campers full of people from away – often from far away – excitedly anticipating their Maine vacations. I’ve been one of them. Why do we endure these slogs to reach the Pine Tree State?
Maine Voices: State could magnify its allure by removing more dams from its rivers
On any summer weekend, Interstate 95 north is clogged with cars and campers full of people from away – often from far away – excitedly anticipating their Maine vacations. I’ve been one of them. Why do we endure these slogs to reach the Pine Tree State? Mostly it’s for the outdoors: refreshing northerly breezes; clear indigo lakes; misty vistas viewed over rocky ocean shores; seaside lobster, and, yes, vast expanses of pine trees.
A Fish Coup in the Salmon Kingdom | Hakai Magazine
For fly fishers, Atlantic salmon is the king of fish. It’s a dream to cast into an unspoiled river on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula and hook seven kilograms of silvery beauty. But in 2017, fishers all the way to Newfoundland and even in several locations in Labrador caught a startling intruder, a fish so surprising, some anglers didn’t even recognize their catch. Why have striped bass suddenly materialized in the kingdom of the Atlantic salmon?
Opinion | Thoreau’s Distressing Canoe Trip (Published 2017)
Six years before he moved to Walden Pond in 1845 to ponder life and live deliberately, Henry David Thoreau spent two weeks canoeing rivers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The voyage was an epiphany for him. At the time, the nation was becoming giddy with the promise of industrialization, an enterprise greatly dependent on rivers for power and waste disposal. But Thoreau, born 200 years ago on Wednesday, foresaw the ravaged futures of these increasingly commodified rivers.
What JFK fliers owe Jamaica Bay wildlife
The world needs John F. Kennedy International Airport — now set for a major overhaul, if Gov. Cuomo gets his way — but the considerable environmental costs of the airport are largely loaded on a single place: the much-loved and much-abused reaches of Jamaica Bay. It’s time that the world pays back what it owes, via a “fair fare for nature.” At the dawn of commercial aviation 80 years ago, dry land for new infrastructure was already hard to find.
Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations
books.google.com - That one could “walk drishod on the backs” of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the waters...
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Take dams off rivers - but keep the electricity
[This article originally appeared at Yale Environment 360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.] Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution. In many places, such as the U.S. East Coast, hydroelectric dams have damaged the ecological integrity of nearly every major river and have decimated runs of migratory fish. This need not continue.
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source
Hydroelectric power is often touted as clean energy, but this claim is true only in the narrow sense of not causing air pollution. In many places, such as the U.S. East Coast, hydroelectric dams have damaged the ecological integrity of nearly every major river and have decimated runs of migratory fish.This need not continue. Our rivers can be liberated from their concrete shackles, while also continuing to produce electricity at the site of former hydropower dams. How might that occur?
How Norway and Russia Made A Cod Fishery Live and Thrive
What years of dwelling in the cold Atlantic had amassed, an army of knife-wielding, white-suited Norwegian factory workers were taking apart in just minutes. In a consummate display of optimization, streams of fish parts were whisked along on conveyor belts around and above me, with various cuts destined for their most appropriate markets. Nothing was wasted —not skin, fins, bones, offal, or roe. Fresh tongues went straight to Oslo.
Opinion | Let the River Run Wild
Op-Ed Contributors By John Waldman, Karin E. Limburg and Amy Roe Sept. 7, 2014 IF the Chesapeake Bay is America’s Estuary, then its largest tributary, the Susquehanna River, could arguably be called America’s River.
Opinion | Beware Marauding Carp
Op-Ed Contributors By David Strayer and John Waldman Nov. 19, 2013 EARLIER this month, researchers demonstrated that a Eurasian species of fish, the grass carp, had begun reproducing in Lake Erie. This may not sound like alarming news, but unless we take steps to prevent its spread, this animal is poised to disrupt the ecology of the Hudson River and New York’s other inland waters. Grass carp are like underwater lawn mowers.
Heartbeats in the Muck
The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor, Revised Edition By (author) John Waldman Published: 2012 ISBN: 9780823249855 Page Count: 160 Price: $23.00 Description Heartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor’s environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the harbor has been marked by centuries of rampant industrialization and degradation of its natural environment.
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