An increase of salmon spawning in arctic rivers provides leads researchers to question why the increase is happening.
Adrian Peterson explores research from UAF confirming an increase of salmon spawning in arctic rivers.FAIRBANKS, Alaska - During September, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks visited rivers in the arctic, above the Brooks Range, leading to the confirmation of an increase of salmon spawning in arctic waters.
Recent research from UAF’s College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences in now confirming that one of those shifts has been an increase of salmon spawning in arctic rivers on the North Slope. One theory for the increasing salmon populations in arctic rivers is the impact of warming water and climate change which is having an opposite affect closer to Fairbanks. “The crisis, the hardship, the trauma that’s going on, on the Yukon I mean, it can’t be stressed enough,” Westley said.
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