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Prince Rupert Regional Information
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NATURESea, land, river PEOPLESCommunity
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Is it a PR
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PR
airport no longer uses real people to measure snow, wind speed,
precipitation, etc --- but if they did it would most assuredly be a record –
the present highest snowfall measured on ground for December was in early
1960s and was 30 centimetres or about 12 inches – and it is easily double
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Climate change and ecosystem response
in the northern Columbia River basin — A paleoenvironmental perspective |
Proposed
Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation
Area Reserve |
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At the recent DFO presentation M Joyce described and ‘consulted’ fishers about proposal ---- I asked about what climate change would mean for Marine parks etc --- She was probably not the person to ask – but it is an important issue that needs discussion – the point being even discounting sea level rise etc – it will probably happen that ecosystems as we know them will disappear – species will begin acting ‘individually’ – this has happened in past after ice ages etc – and thus studies using cores from lakes etc helpful in suggesting how things will change --- see excellent Ian Walker article – uses past to discuss ecosystems in climate change scenarios – salmon – protected areas etc implications WWF has book addressing
issue mainly from terrestrial perspective ----- BUYING TIME: A User's Manual for Building Resistance
and Resilience to Climate Change in Natural Systems |
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Marine birds
track phytoplankton |
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I
will have to find the reference again – Idea was that if recognize what types
of seabirds flocking onto a spot out in ocean – could predict what plankton etc
--- as some birds feed exclusively on small fish while others feed on
copepods etc |
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Alaska is
limiting its sports catch of halibut |
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Sport Charter boats’ Halibut catch to be reduced
in SE AK --- And BC??? Image left is from a local charter boat – the halibut are
legal – (no size limit etc) --- but our area probably being ‘fished out’ of
rock cod and halibut --- the down side of aiming at fishing tourism --- more
on the later where DFO tried to get sports boats to tell how many halibut etc
Note there are special rules for transporting sport caught
fish – so that one can tell what spp etc DFO
rules for packaging
and transporting sports catch |
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Tomorrow I will look at Canary
Rockfish & SARA
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Created by LG on
Feb 1, 2006
Last updated on Friday, January 02, 2009