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Boom and Bust in the Bering Sea: The Fate of Crab and Sockeye Salmon in a Changing World. The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe January 25, 2022, in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. The Pinnacle, which is larger than most Bering Sea fishing boats, can travel through some unconsolidated sea ice, although at a greatly reduced speed. An ice floe with pieces like this can damage buoys, increasing the risk of a lost crab pot. Image by Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News. United States. As the world warms, the Bering Sea tells a story of boom and bust. The sockeye salmon runs of Bristol Bay are to be marveled. More than 78.3 million sockeye surged home last summer, filling nets and spawning grounds. The spectacular display came as Alaska salmon runs of chum and chinook once again imploded. Meanwhile, Bering Sea crab populations have crashed. The snow crab harvest for the first time ever has been canceled, and the king crab season was shut down for the secon
Boom and Bust in the Bering Sea: The Fate of Crab and Sockeye Salmon in a Warming World. The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. Image by Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News. United States. As the world warms, the Bering Sea tells a story of boom and bust. The sockeye salmon runs of Bristol Bay are to be marveled. More than 78.3 million sockeye surged home last summer, filling nets and spawning grounds. The spectacular display came as Alaska salmon runs of chum and chinook once again imploded. Meanwhile, Bering Sea crab populations have crashed. The snow crab harvest for the first time ever has been canceled, and the king crab season was shut down for the second year in a row. Join Seattle Times reporter Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News photojournalist Loren Holmes, and a panel of experts in a discussion of some of the effects of a warming climate on one of the planet’s most productive mar
With an eye on the thousands of civilians caught in the firestorms, the book examines who built and flew the B-29s, and how the Army Air Forces came to firebomb civilian areas in 1945. An uncomfortable, important and thoughtful history by author James M. Scott, a review says.
In 1940, Seattle-based Boeing engineers designed a massive beast of an aircraft. The B-29 Superfortress — composed of 55,000 parts — had a tail three-stories high, enormous propellers and a