In Alaska, Summer’s Getting Too Hot for the Salmon Run

In Alaska, Summer’s Getting Too Hot for the Salmon Run

This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, across southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay region—home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world—tens of thousands of fish washed up dead along riverbanks. Rivers running at temperatures above the threshold for salmon health were killing the […]

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