What’s behind chinook and chum salmon declines in Alaska?
A reminder that the Supreme Court is hearing a case on wetlands &amp; could decide to vastly rollback the Fed&#x27;s reasonably longstanding regulatory capability over watershed &amp; wetlands (because of course this court would). Current division of power is that states have right to regulate land usage, but feds have regulatory power over water &amp; wetland, but Supreme Court could disrupt this capability. Whether a state lile Alaska or Washington would potentially be <i>more</i> regulatory is an interesting question.<p>There&#x27;s another somewhat adjacent submission on water regulation that seems worth noting (headsup, I know nothing about the repytation&#x2F;biases of the Alaska Republic newspaper),<p><i>Rewrite of federal fisheries law navigates rough partisan waters</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alaskapublic.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;rewrite-of-federal-fisheries-law-navigates-rough-partisan-waters&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alaskapublic.org&#x2F;2022&#x2F;10&#x2F;04&#x2F;rewrite-of-federal-fishe...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33145996" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33145996</a><p>Of course, water regulation might not be enough, if the whole ecosystems here are being tromped on by climate change. Maybe maybe maybe we can change out find some new nutrient supply for the fish if their normal food sources can survive, but whether it&#x27;s that or any of a dozen other problemstic factors doing the bulk of the harm: no one knows.