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We Can Put A Fish On The Moon

This aint exactly rocket scientry boys...Istring to their whereabouts? Or, perhaps we
picked up a copy of The Oregonian thiscan hire a "private scuba investigator"
morning and read a story about how the ocean(scuba Dick??) to put a tail on them--maybe
conditions this year are killing off seabirdstake a few photos of them?? Have they fallen
in record numbers. Murres and cormorants areinto the Marianas trench? What if they are
washing up on shore like pieces ofjust "vacationing" in Iceland until the
Northwestern forest driftwood, mainly due towaters  get  cooler?
starvation.Most biologists are blaming a lack
of cooling ocean winds which are causingWhen I get hot during the summer--I go where
warmer Pacific ocean temperatures, which areit is cooler!Again, we have no clear idea why
causing a lack of phytoplankton production,or where the fish are disappearing--but we
(which then need to stirred up from the oceanare pretty certain that global warming is
bottom by the wind),which are causingcausing it.!!??!!??You can't tell me that
Anchovys and Sardines to die, which areputting "chips" or some other sort of
causing the birds to go without"homing" device into schools of migrating
food.......which is causing the birds tofish,especially since most fish start out in
die!Whew.Scientists seem to have a prettythe controlled environments of fish
good grasp on this theory, and even thoughhatcherys, is not a "doable" project.If there
solution wise,they are pretty much held atis enough cause for concern, and enough
the mercy of Mother Nature, the explanationreason to throw billions of dollars at
still makes perfect sense.Of course, anystudying ozone layers, and studying why Coho
discussion of warming of anything on thisare diminishing--after the fact-- then there
planet wouldn't be complete--without thecertainly is reason enough to do it before
blaming of global warming. Which of coursehand.I for one would gladly pay .50 cents
has been blamed for everything short of themore on my fishing license to help pay for
scalding temperatures of McDonalds coffee.The10,000 or so chips and a few monitoring
Oregonian's article mentioned global warmingdevices. AND you can't tell me that the
on several occasions, and biologists andOregon sportfishing, boat building,commercial
scientists would not rule this out as afishing industry, and tourism industry don't
possible contributing factor in the changinghave a vested interest in protecting fish and
oceanic conditions this summer.Enter thefinding out more about their migration
Coho.Biologists have also recorded fewerhabits. No fish--no fishermen--no money
catches of Coho Salmon on the Oregon coastspent.Heck, put 'em in all the fish --then
with numbers down from 44,000 fish last yearyou will know exactly when the fish are
to about 5700 this year. Marine biologistscaught,where they go to spawn, and how long
have also stated that the size of the fishUncle Bill has been keeping that Salmon in
has generally been smaller, again, with onehis freezer.As far as the ozone is concerned,
theory being that there is less food for theI think we all have a vested interest in that
Coho to feed on--therefore less growth. Wherestudy.Let's learn about our own planet before
the fish are or where they have gone is awe check out the cause and effect of
complete mystery. As one wildlife biologistweightlessness on a can of Coca-Cola!!I can
said " it is a big ocean nobody reallysee it now: New from Coca- Cola... "Coke
knows".O.K., this is where I get confused.Weultralight... all the taste with none of the
have the ocean-- which past history has toldweight"...I am not saying that space
us is affected greatly by currents andexploration is not viable and important, and
temperature.We have this great big giantI am certainly convinced that one day, much
gaping hole in our ozone-which nobody canlike the discovery of any new frontier,people
agree on how to check or what the cause andwill inhabit some place in space. HOWEVER, I
effect is from it. Or how to fix it.We have athink it a little premature to abandon Earth
space shuttle which we can determine has aand pack up the old intergalactic covered
small yet dangerous crack in it'swagons.So, it seems when it comes to ozones
insulation--millions of miles out in space.and fish migration and what goes on in the
Yet we have the ability to repair it.We"deep blue sea"--we ought to know just as
literally have the technolology to put a fishmuch as we know about a crack in a space
on the moon.......But we can't figure outshuttles insulation!!What do you think?In the
where thousands of Salmon migrate to- rightmeantime, I'll be outside cooking my
here on our home planet??"It's a big oceanbreakfast on the hood of my car--because MAN
nobody really knows."Now forgive my feebleit's hot out.......damn global warming!A.J.
mind for working this way, but I am thinkingKlottAuthor, writer of fishing humor,and "fly
that this great mystery of where fish traveltack" peddler.A.J. writes about the
and where they wind up --is really somethingpeople,characters and modern day events that
that we can control and find out.Maybe we cansurround the fishing world. His first book is
tie a string to their fins and follow thedue out in December of 2005.



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