“Maybe the salmon will return a year later,” [federal fisheries minister Gail] Shea said in an interview on CBC radio’s All Points West during her visit to Prince Rupert yesterday. “Nobody knows what’s happening in the marine environment.”

Perhaps the sockeye will follow a five year return cycle? Evolution, I suppose.

For the whole story, read Andrew MacLeod at The Tyee.

Photo from Our Place in Canada – The Newfoundland Experiment