The Feb. 1, 2019 journal “Science” contained very disturbing pertinent findings regarding our fisheries and whales. In 2017, 100 million Pacific cod “suddenly vanished” in waters off SE Alaska. NOAA research trawlers “indicated that cod numbers had plunged by 70% in two years erasing a fishery worth $100 million annually.” In 2015, “just 166 humpback whales returned to Alaska’s Glacier Bay … a 30% drop from 2013 … all the humpback calves disappeared and are…
