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Joe Langan

Aug 11, 2026

17:58
Yeah
17:58
... is that Atlantic invasion.
18:00
So, um, Russia introduced, you know, former Soviet Union, then Russia introduced pink salmon to the White Sea area, which is the part of Russia next to the top of Norway.
18:11
Um- At first, they were using salmon from a relatively southerly population from Sakhalin Island, which is the long, skinny island just north of Hokkaido, Japan.
18:20
Um, trying to put, so something like 48-something degrees north latitude, 40-something, I don't remember the exact, and putting them in way up in, you know, basically the Russian Arctic.
18:31
They put in a lot of effort releasing millions and millions of juveniles, and they couldn't get natural reproduction self-sustaining.
18:39
So they stopped that around 1980 or so, and then they switched to sourcing pink salmon from the River Ola, which is in the northern Sea of Okhotsk, so a much more northerly population, around 60 degrees north latitude, something way closer, right? And those started naturally reproducing almost right away.

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41:43
Wow.

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