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Podcast: The Blue Fish Radio Show
Episode: Declining Resident Orca Whales and Chinook Salmon populations
Description: While most all other Orca or Killer Whale populations are growing in size, and in certain cases, setting new population records, the southern and northern residential Orca populations along Canada’s west coast have not fared as well. At the same time, the Chinook salmon these two resident whale populations depend on almost exclusively, are themselves in decline. Scientists and conservationists alike agree that climate change related issues such as drought, warming oceans, acidification, extreme storms and shifts in marine biomass, in addition to pressures from commercial and aquiculture practices, as well as loss of spawning habitat due to dams, fo...