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Melting Glaciers A Factor in Irish River Salmon Decline
#ANGLING - Climate change in the Atlantic may be a significant factor in the decline of wild salmon returning to their native rivers in Ireland - especially with the news that a section of ice twice the size of Manhattan has calved from a glacier in Greenland.
Angling correspondent Derek Evans writes in The Irish Times about the major ice sheet separation along the north-west coast of Greenland, which experts have attributed to warming ocean temperatures.
It is the second such indident to occur in the past three years, after the Petermann glacier lost some 97 square miles of ice in August of 2010.
As reported on Afloat.ie last year, the effects of climate change on the world's oceans are forcing species such as wild salmon to adapt by feeding in colder waters.
The Irish Times has more on the story HERE.
