Baby sockeye salmon are growing faster due to climate change

Baby sockeye salmon are growing faster due to climate change

Source: nationalobserver

1/15/2024

Credit: Walter KB Joseph / Simon Fraser

Climate change has tipped the scales, causing juvenile sockeye salmon in B.C. to grow bigger over the past century.

The growth of salmon using lakes as nurseries during the first years of life in northern B.C. is about 35 per cent higher than 100 years ago, a new study from Simon Fraser University shows.

Warmer lake temperatures can spur salmon to grow faster by boosting their metabolism and their ability to capture prey, as well as increasing the food supply for fish, said SFU researcher Michael Price.

Skeena River

Salmon, Kokanee

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