date:May 07, 2014
dy weight, said Bob Foy, director of the NOAA lab at Kodiak. On the other hand, a 10 percent drop in pteropod production would lead to about a 20 percent drop in body weight. Obviously, the system is fairly dynamic, but the loss of pteropod population would be extremely detrimental to pink salmon.
Pinks make up Alaskas largest salmon fishery by volume and second only to sockeyes in value. Last years pink salmon catch was a record 219 million fish valued at $277 million at the docks. NOAA resear