@DerekKoch: Think about it. Suppose the juveniles acquire sea lice as they enter the ocean. They cause disease that leads to 95% mortality. Unless sea lice were killing their hosts years and years later, when as it appears they are most healthy and most vigorous, how could volcanics help?
One poster said salmon were even disfigured by it. How likely is it that this dire blight would allow juveniles to enjoy the phyto plancton and live to become adults. It isn't a common understanding juveniles are surviving.
The massive return of sockeye last year has been attributed to the phyto-plancton bloom. That may be true. But then I wonder who did this "study" to make this determination. If it was a DFO study, (I know they released it) there was some explaining to do since their scientific predictions were so off, they didn't look remotely competent. Or, was it the anti-farmed-salmon "scientists" like David Suzuki? Suzuki has declared himself to be a scientist with profound expertise in everything from oil sands to grizzly bears, and makes a lot of money by it. At least this time, oceanic micro biology, he comes close to the discipline he was granted a degree for. But by his pontificating far and wide in areas far from his expertise, what real credibility can he maintain in all of this? Especially considering the moral hazard of his directly benefiting from the "crisis of sea lice"?
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