Saving Wild Salmon Research Paper

Saving the Wild Salmon

Salmon, one of the delicious seafood, fillets are versatile, and pretty much they are eaten by people every day in the world. I'm pretty sure that once you have a good recipe for cooking salmon, you would be totally hit on it. But today, I'm not going to talk about how to cook salmon; I'm going to talk about saving wild salmon. Should wild salmon need to be conserved and protected? I went to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is the fish hatchery I went to as a field trip with Eng 102 Class. As we know, There are five species of Pacific salmon thrive in the North Pacific waters of the U.S. and Canada. The first three salmons are King, Red,

As we know, increasing pollution not only causes serious problems such as global warming but also could threaten to end human life, wildlife on our planet. Not only human has been fighting against the global warming but also wildlife on our planet. Higher global warming temperatures cause winter precipitation to fall more as rain rather than snow which swells and intensifies winter stream flows. Many people have thought about how the global warming effect on the salmon ecosystem. "Loss of snowpack and shrinking glaciers mean reduced stream flows in summer and fall. Not only would it would be difficult for returning salmon to reach spawning grounds and for juvenile fish to come the ocean, lower stream volumes also mean warmer water." According to the website: National wildlife federation. Salmon is one of the coldwater fish that needs to be desperate for the cold environment, such as snowpack, ice water for their habitat. However, salmon has been losing more and more their range of the habitat as the temperature getting lower and lower. Could've it been the severe problem to salmon if the temperature of water below the required? You bet. Based on the website, "Optimum water temperature range for most salmonids is 55-64 degrees Fahrenheit (12.8-17.8 degrees Celsius). Warmer summers

And also, fish hatcheries have been playing an important role in Salmons producing huge numbers of fish, as well as work in close collaboration with state and federal agencies to raise fish for the purpose of restocking and replenishing waters. However, hatcheries have been the hottest topic from last couple years debated by two groups of people, opponent, and supporter. The reason why the opponent against the hatcheries is that, opponent think the hatcheries have been not doing anything that they expected, and they kept asking for more funding to keep the wild salmon in the safety situation. According to from one of the opponents says, "Hatcheries can play a significant role in salmon recovery if they focus on protecting genetic diversity instead of producing huge numbers of fish." which meant that they thought the hatcheries only knew how to produce more salmon instead of keeping genetic diversity of wild salmon. Some even say, " Hatchery salmon threaten wild salmon restoration in another, very subtle way: They skew people's perception of salmon populations." But, from the supporter point of view, they've totally agreed and believed that the fish hatcheries have been doing the right thing for salmon, so do I. Like I said, I went to the Fish Hatchery as a volunteer in WA, and one of the fish manager told me that the funding they received is much less than we expected, as well