Pacific Salmon

CLACKAMAS, Ore. ? Banner runs of Pacific salmon helped feed thousands of Oregonians in 2014.

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife hatcheries donated more than 350,000 pounds of Chinook and coho salmon to food banks in communities across the state.

The huge donation of high quality protein was made possible by one of the largest returns of Pacific salmon in years. A record 1.2 million Chinook and 1 million coho returned to the Columbia River in 2014. Similar returns are expected again in 2015.


Tim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific...al_oscillation

Worth reading up on this phenomenon and you will find Pacific salmon productivity hinges on the temperature swing... Right now it favors salmon and is putting a serious hurt on halibut stocks.