9 votes

The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species

Posted by mycketforvirrad
Tags: norway, finland, biology.marine, fisheries, ecosystems, fish, salmon.atlantic, salmon.pacific, rivers, tana, deaths.animal, species.invasive, arctic, russia, seascape, author.sofia quaglia, source.the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/02/it-smells-so-bad-glut-of-wild-salmon-creates-stink-in-norway-and-finland

Link information

This data is scraped automatically and may be incorrect.

Title
'It smells so bad': glut of wild salmon creates stink in Norway and Finland
Authors
Sofia Quaglia
Published
Oct 2 2023
Word count
1376 words

2 comments

  1. Tigress
    Link
    Living in the PNW I'm a bit amused at this as we have a problem with Atlantic salmon affecting pacific salmon. If we could just put the salmon back where they belong (though we have five different...

    Living in the PNW I'm a bit amused at this as we have a problem with Atlantic salmon affecting pacific salmon. If we could just put the salmon back where they belong (though we have five different types of salmon and even if you magically could do this it would only solve one salmon species).

    4 votes
  2. Tigress
    Link
    Also, I should mention pink salmon really don't keep very well (we used to fish for them all the time... they are easy catching at least for not commercial uses). They are best eaten near when you...

    Also, I should mention pink salmon really don't keep very well (we used to fish for them all the time... they are easy catching at least for not commercial uses). They are best eaten near when you catch them... their flavor just doesn't really keep for long periods of time (we'd catch way more than we could eat and they were noticeably not as good once taking frozen leftovers out to cook). So I could easily see how they would not be a good replacement for atlantic salmon commercially. You do see pink salmon sold commercially, but I believe it's all canned (even here usually if you are eating it non canned it's cause you fished for it).

    3 votes