Mmmm salmon! Oh, no. I guess not.

For the fish? They are gone. This is a terribly sad story- one that's probably not going to get a lot of looks what with the collapsing economy, rising gas prices, increased unemployment, ever more desperate and stupid ideas from politicians for how to fix it all (hey, who wants $300?), Chinese slaughter of monks, and tornadoes destroying a good chunk of Atlanta, for Christ's sake, but it is something. It certainly is something. Good NYT article. Heartbreaking.

"The Chinook salmon that swim upstream to spawn in the fall, the most robust run in the Sacramento River, have disappeared. The almost complete collapse of the richest and most dependable source of Chinook salmon south of Alaska left gloomy fisheries experts struggling for reliable explanations — and coming up dry." link