Fishing can be dangerous!

I've only been on that sort of a fishing trip a few times, and there were less waves, but I didn't realise how dangerous it could be.


Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.

An odd tone to this BBC report

The BBC report an odd research finding:

'The pristine waters of British Columbia's Fraser River, a few hours drive upstream from Vancouver, belies the activity beneath.

Below the tranquil surface, the river has just witnessed one of nature's most spectacular natural phenomena - the return of the sockeye salmon, and this year it is the biggest salmon run in a century.

This year, despite dire predictions from scientists, 34 million sockeye salmon came back to the exact stretch of river where they were born to spawn.
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But what makes this even more astonishing is that it comes just one year after only one million fish returned.

Last year's run was so low that the Canadian government set up a federal inquiry to try to understand what happened.'

And the article concludes

'All the more vital then that scientists strive for as complete a picture as possible to explain why so many salmon returned this year, and so few last year, or they risk a loss in confidence until no-one is listening to apocalyptic warnings of threats to the wealth of our oceans. '

Odd how the article seems to assume that the odd figure is this year's 34 million not last year's one million. As last year's figure was so low that yhe Canadian government set up an inquiry, what action will they take this year now that the figure is at a century high?

We all know that 'bio-diversity' is the new Global Warming, in that it is the stick to be used to beat us with and so as to raise taxes and increase controls. So expect many more such BBC investigations as they help to rack up the pressure.