At the first sign of even minimal apprehension about the state of any fish stock many environmental extremists go right to the only page they know in the Henny Penny playbook and scream-collapse.

Some, like Greenpeace, do it to raise money while others do it as a simple matter of routine-if there isn’t a crisis they’re not needed so let’s announce a crisis and then work backwards from there.

Apocalyptic warnings that fish farming was on the verge of wiping out British Columbia’s wild salmon fishery now appear to be an over reaction as news reports announce stocks are returning in abundance this season.

Reports now suggest it was warm water from the tropics that “hung around and did a lot of damage” was to blame for the earlier population drop. The region isn’t just seeing a return of salmon it’s seeing sardines, whales and “as the water temperatures have cooled” “all kinds of life.”