<story><title>How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>guardiangod</author><text>Up here in British Columbia, Canada, the salmon situation this year has been dire. The government was expecting 5 million salmons returning to spawn. We got 600,000.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbc.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;canada&amp;#x2F;british-columbia&amp;#x2F;sockeye-returns-plunge-in-b-c-official-calls-2019-extremely-challenging-1.5256443&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbc.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;canada&amp;#x2F;british-columbia&amp;#x2F;sockeye-retu...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;In one of the most dramatic shifts, the federal Department of Fisheries has adjusted the estimated number of returning Fraser River sockeye to slightly more than 600,000, down from an earlier projection of nearly five million.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>melling</author><text>We’re overfishing everywhere. China has gone all the way to West Africa:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;av&amp;#x2F;world-africa-47698314&amp;#x2F;is-china-s-fishing-fleet-taking-all-of-west-africa-s-fish&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;av&amp;#x2F;world-africa-47698314&amp;#x2F;is-china-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;china-wants-fish-so-africa-goes-hungry.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;opinion&amp;#x2F;china-wants-fish-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>