KNTV NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt September 19, 2021 22:52:00
>> reporter: how do you know it is climate change? >> so we have decades of air temperature data and water temperature data. >> reporter: ideally the water should be no warmer than 59 degrees. but over the last decade it's too warm as much as 92% of the time when the salmon return. >> so you have to have 350,000 sockeye to be able to fish in our watershed and that hasn't happened in almost 15 years. >> reporter: all this means shrinking choices on the menu. king salmon is now a rarity. >> it might only be a nightly special versus having it on the core menu. >> reporter: and prices are higher. ...