Salmon fishing has always been a semi-reliant source of food for natives in all parts of Alaska for centuries. The prosperity of the salmon in these areas has been necessary to the survival and prosperity of Alaska 's ancient and current inhabitants. The debate on salmon in this reason is often surrounding two main questions: Why are the salmon populations flourishing, and why are they not in other areas of the united states. These questions and more can be answered not by looking at current ecological occurrences, but looking deep into the past, into antique recordings of catches of Alaskan fishers of the 1200 's.
From researching why at times there is growth in salmon population, I found that it is closely linked to weather patterns. In …show more content…
Canned salmon is sealed with preservatives which allow it to not need to be refrigerated, allowing a “stockpile” to be held with the purpose to supply the demand through the bad season of fishing. This is in my opinion the cure to over fishing, since when wild salmon is caught and prepared on the store shelf where it has to be cooked, and if it doesn 't it goes bad and needs to be thrown away. But if it has a shelf life of years, in fact processing companies have enough canned salmon to suffice the united states salmon consumption for two …show more content…
These regulations are also part of the reason why Alaskan Atlantic salmon are on such a population rise at the moment. There is however controversy over how many restrictions are in fact put on fishing in Alaska and over the rest of the world. The restrictions are based on information that is out dated in some circumstances and that isn 't always followed up with fact based knowledge. Because the researchers find a low population of certain oceanic species does not mean their populations are as low in different areas. It could be due to water temperatures, changes in currents, as with the salmon, not all drops in population are due to over fishing and pollution. When decisions such as steep regulations are made, the biggest differences are sometimes made in the people they effect, and not so much the
From researching why at times there is growth in salmon population, I found that it is closely linked to weather patterns. In …show more content…
Canned salmon is sealed with preservatives which allow it to not need to be refrigerated, allowing a “stockpile” to be held with the purpose to supply the demand through the bad season of fishing. This is in my opinion the cure to over fishing, since when wild salmon is caught and prepared on the store shelf where it has to be cooked, and if it doesn 't it goes bad and needs to be thrown away. But if it has a shelf life of years, in fact processing companies have enough canned salmon to suffice the united states salmon consumption for two …show more content…
These regulations are also part of the reason why Alaskan Atlantic salmon are on such a population rise at the moment. There is however controversy over how many restrictions are in fact put on fishing in Alaska and over the rest of the world. The restrictions are based on information that is out dated in some circumstances and that isn 't always followed up with fact based knowledge. Because the researchers find a low population of certain oceanic species does not mean their populations are as low in different areas. It could be due to water temperatures, changes in currents, as with the salmon, not all drops in population are due to over fishing and pollution. When decisions such as steep regulations are made, the biggest differences are sometimes made in the people they effect, and not so much the