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Mary Peltola: “There was 100% correlation between high abundance [of king…”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Ocean Strategies Interview with Rep. Mary Peltola

Published | Video Starts at 29:40

My mom is from. He brought in this correlation between King salmon and canadian geese, and he looked at the migratory bird return in April and from 2017 to … There was 100% correlation between high abundance [of king salmon] and [migratory bird return] from 2017 to 2021. … had much, much more than had been predicted. And then in the next summer, the department had predicted 220,000. They wanted to really fish hard. And James said, no, we can't do that. (29:40)

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Asserts a 100% correlation between king salmon abundance and migratory bird return from 2017 to 2021.

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