Drought kills spawning salmon

[Catherine]

Every year salmon return to the river they came from. It is actually a 4 year cycle so the salmon returning this year hatched four years ago.
This year the drought in BC is so severe many hundreds of fish have died in streams that have dried up. They didn't make it to the spawning grounds.
That means four years from now there will be few fish to return to spawn.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c...-1.6606418

Salmon numbers are already declining. This is a serious loss. Many other creatures depend on the salmon for food. Creatures on the land, like the bears depend on the salmon to fatten for winter. In the ocean, sea mammals like Orcas depend on the salmon for food. Orca numbers are already in trouble. They don't need further loss of their food sources.

This is yet another effect of climate change. It seems that every day we hear of another disaster caused by climate change.
If we don't act soon to fight climate change, it will be too late. Four years from now when the salmon fail to return, because their parents didn't survive to spawn,
we will feel the effects, but for that year the damage will already have been done.