How are the bears doing in a year of low salmon returns?
2008 had only 10,000 pink salmon return to the Glendale River system in Knight Inlet, it usually gets 200,000 or so, in 2000 1 million. The bears turn to digging for rice root and plants that have been storing starch all summer. By early October chum salmon (4 year fish cycle) returned to give the bears a chance to fatten up for hibernation. Check out this video as we challenge the causes of this collapse: http://www.ourrivers.ca/video-library-mainmenu-29/14-videos/218-glendalegrizzlie As well, from 2005 to Nov 2007 warm water off our outer coast which has not been kind to the copepods and small marine critters that are the basis of the marine food chain. This temperature flipped to cool sea water in the winter of 2007-2008 so the run of pink salmon for 2009 should find more to eat on the high seas.
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