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By Abby Lowell, Morris News Service-Alaska\/Juneau Empire<\/div>\n
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Editor\u2019s note: This is the ninth in the Morris Communications series \u201cThe case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Alaska\u2019s long-lived monarch \u2014 the king salmon \u2014 has fallen from its throne.<\/p>\n

The species, which once thrived as a fabled ruler in state waters, was sought-after by fisherman from all over the world. Their massive presence in rivers like the Kenai, the Yukon and the Taku, to name only a few, brought sport and commercial fisherman to banks and river mouths for a chance to harvest this mighty resource.<\/p>\n

The largest known king \u2014 weighing in at 126.5 pounds \u2014 was caught in a fish trap off Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska in 1938.<\/p>\n

Today, fish of that caliber are seemingly nonexistent. Alaska has seen unprecedented declines in recent years resulting in declarations of economic disasters in some regions, or simply empty freezers in others. Researchers, management officials, commercial fisherman, subsistence users and sport fisherman are coming to the same conclusion \u2014 the fish are fewer and the sizes smaller.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why scientists like Joe Orsi and Jim Murphy, both fisheries research biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are digging deeper into decades of research to put forth evidence and findings that may lead to a solution or at least a clue to the cause of the startling downward trend.<\/p>\n

Orsi has studied chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha<\/em>, for nearly his entire career. As part of NOAA\u2019s Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment Program he has helped to gather data for the Southeast Alaska Coastal Monitoring project, which aims to understand and examine ocean conditions and the factors that affect king salmon. He and his team have collected and sampled juvenile salmon, as well as any data they may be packing, migrating through Southeast Alaska waters since 1997.<\/p>\n

He said the first step to understanding what factors and forces may be affecting the chinook is to take a look at the ecological niche they occupy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Due to copyright law, the Alaska Salmon Alliance cannot repost full articles. You can read the rest of this editorial here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Because the Alaska Salmon Alliance wish to provide a wide breadth of information, we sometimes provide links and documents that may conflict or present only one perspective on an issue.\u00a0 Because of that, we feel it is important to note that none of the content provided on our website necessarily represents the views or opinions of the Alaska Salmon Alliance, excepting, of course, those articles authored by us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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