Pink Salmon — Too Much of a Good Thing?
![Pink salmon returning in August, 2017, to Port Valdez near the Solomon Gulch Hatchery, where workers release about 230 million salmon smolts to the ocean each year. Photos by Ned Rozell. Pink Salmon — Too Much of a Good Thing?](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/pinks.jpg)
Of the five species of salmon that swim Alaska waters, the pink is by far the most plentiful. Some scientists think the fish is an overabundant predator that outcompetes other salmon and some seabirds. In the late 1990s, Japanese researchers noticed an intriguing pattern while studying in the Bering Sea just north of the Aleutians. […]