Salmon Die-Off

Salmon Die-Off

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Civil Rights Vet Fund, Gee's Bend Quilts, POP Clubs

Episode: Civil Rights Vet Fund, Gee's Bend Quilts, POP Clubs

  • Jan 11, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 14:14 mins

There are salmon in the creeks that run through Seattle neighborhoods and alongside roads. But after a big rain, those salmon routinely turn up seriously sick–and eventually die. Jenifer McIntyre is a professor of Aquatic Toxicology at Washington State University, and she led the team that cracked the case of the sick and dying Coho salmon in Seattle’s city creeks.