Felix Salmon gives the story. I haven't read the research articles, but it's an interesting story. As Salmon frames the book, it's Freakonomics-the-book vs. Freakonomics-style empirical analysis.
P.S. I'm assuming that both numbers above have been rounded to the nearest billion.
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All the writing about the Big 3, fueled an appetite for salmon. I thought what better way to start off every day this week with a little smoked salmon on bagel.
Suddenly it's salmon everywhere -- or in some cases, nowhere.
tags: salmon, wild Pacific salmon,
Why must scientists play with salmons' heads like this: