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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: End of Salmon
Description: What is not eating what this year is we-the-people eating king salmon.
The kings, which are also called “chinooks” by those in the know, are those salmon that are hatched in the rivers and streams of California and Oregon, and which, when of age, migrate down the rivers into the Pacific Ocean where they spend their working lives.
Then, when its time, they migrate back up the rain-swollen rivers to spawn a new generation of king salmon.
But for eight years in a row Calfiornia and Oregon rivers did not swell with rain, and for t...