Buy 5 minute oatmeal while its still available and cheap
Long shelf life and nutritious. Great stockpile item
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Buy 5 minute oatmeal while its still available and cheap
Long shelf life and nutritious. Great stockpile item
SEATTLE -- A record number of threatened chinook salmon are passing through the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard, Wash., this year, bound for East King County rivers.
The return of nearly 32,000 far surpasses the previous record of about 19,000 set in 2001. Counts began in 1995.
Sockeye salmon, however, have reached a low of about 60,000. Biologists had estimated that about 125,000 would enter the Locks this season.
Sockeyes are returning to Canadian rivers in similarly low numbers.
Foley said marine conditions, especially water temperatures, affect the numbers most. Because chinook and sockeye migrate out to the ocean at different times, the bulk of the chinook returning this year probably reached the ocean in 2004, while most of the sockeye probably entered saltwater in 2005.
Most recent history shows, however, that the North Pacific has had two shifts of four years duration recently: a cold era from 1999-2002 and warm period from 2003-2006. Chinook salmon returns to the Columbia mirrored those trends with total numbers climbing upwards from 2000-2003, then declining for the next four years.
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