No one has ever gone out and counted the chinook in the Southern Resident killer whale's habitat – until now.
King salmon, or chinook, are a critical part of the diet of Southern Resident killer whales. The population of Southern Residents has been dangerously low for decades, at around 75 members.low birth rates among Southern Residents to years of low abundance of chinook.
“I think it undermines the premises for a lot of that research,” said Trites, “and I think it undermines how quickly some people have jumped to conclusions. They’ve connected dots that should not be connected, and they’ve had huge leaps of faith in doing that.”and was funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada , the Canadian equivalent of the US National Marine Fisheries Service. His credibility, or the integrity of his project, isn’t in question. But in science, one study is never definitive.
“ the level of abundance that Northern Residents have access to in that time period in the Salish might be adequate for Southern Residents – but that the study wasn’t set up to answer that question,” said MacDuffee. “So extrapolating that from what the study methods were and the study design were, is just too much of a stretch.”a Washington state conservation organization, against the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Donohoe believes the lawsuit was a fundraising tactic, and deflected attention from the genuine threat of marine contaminants in Puget Sound.
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