I love trout and salmon and the outdoors. I hate that our warming climate is going to rapidly decrease the availability of trout and salmon fishing in New Hampshire. Fishing in NH is a popular past time for many residents and is also a source of tourism. Trout and salmon have been easily stocked by NH Fish and Wildlife service for many year. NHPR recently published an article which outlined why less surface ice in the winters and warmer temperatures in the summers are harming the native inhabitants of our waters. Unfortunately, once lake temperatures start to warm and do not freeze for long enough periods of time in the winter, the amount of oxygen at the lower depths becomes less and less and no longer allows salmon and trout to dive deep down to avoid warm surface water temperatures.

The salmon and trout will not survive and stocking them will no longer be useful. The lack of ice in winter and the warming surface temperatures in the summers is from climate change that is caused by greenhouse emissions from the fossil fuel industry. I would like to ask our NH state legislators and particularly the Republican members to please make the transition to renewable energy a priority agenda. I would like NH to become a leader in conversion to clean energy in a fiscally conservative manner which I firmly believe is possible.

Darla Thyng

Hollis