The book warns the status of the Pacific salmon populations and its spawning difficulty in the region. Alex Rose, Vancouver author, devotes several chapters to a crisis that’s devastating the coast from California all the way up to Vancouver – up the Strait of Georgia and beyond.
According to Rose the salmon simply aren’t swimming back in the hoped-for numbers and the shortages are historic. He predicts that unless things change wild salmon stocks such as the magnificent chinook and coho could be decimated to near extinction. It is sad to report such thing but after two years of research it is found that the present situation is at the tipping point.
Rose informed that the Pacific salmon fishery may very well go the way of the Grand Banks cod. Rose also said that a generation ago, there were so many salmon to be had in Vancouver’s English Bay there was an annual salmon derby. According to her there is clearly something drastic happening. Who Killed the Grand Banks is a clarion call to refocus on the salmon, often regarded as an indicator species because of their unique life cycle and unique geographic reach.
