The disappearing salmon of the Miramichi River: New search for answers launched
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick’s famous Miramichi River was once the largest salmon-producing river in North America, drawing the famous and the powerful keen to fly fish there.
But the number of salmon are dropping at an alarming rate — they are now a fraction of what they were in the 90s — and scientists are not entirely sure why.
“If I had one answer, I think that would make a lot of people happy,” said Tommi Linnansaari, the new Atlantic Salmon Research chair at the University of New Brunswick.
UNB announced Friday it is undertaking four research projects to get accurate salmon population numbers — and to understand how those numbers are affected by climate change.