date:May 16, 2012
pulation in remote western Alaska, 2500 miles away.
Genetic data show that these fish share the same feeding grounds in the open waters of the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean, says author Greg Ruggerone of Natural Resources Consultants. With billions of hatchery chum released each year, the abundance of adult chum salmon from hatcheries is now much greater than wild chum salmon, so it is not all that surprising that we are seeing evidence of competition in the North Pacific.
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