Salmon Stocks Dying in Eastern Canada
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HALIFAX, Canada — High temperatures and record low rainfalls this summer are killing salmon stocks across Atlantic Canada, but fisheries officials say it’s too early to assess the damage.
“We’re not about to cry wolf yet,” said Rex Porter, spokesman for the federal Fisheries Department in Newfoundland. “We’ll be OK for 1988, but if there’s damage we’ll see it in the 1989-90 stocks.”
Hundreds of dead salmon, large and small, have turned up in rivers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
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