Data crunchers work to build comprehensive Alaska salmon database

King salmon at a market in Seattle. (Creative Commons photo by Jill /Blue Moonbeam Studio)
Scientists are gathering temperature data to determine what warming waters mean for salmon.
There’s still a lot scientists don’t know and it’s become a hot topic.
One of the first studies in Alaska was published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences this month, as  part of a larger effort to design a statewide database on all things salmon.http