California Salmon Hearing Includes Warnings of Impending Disasters, Some Solutions
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood News] by Susan Chambers - May 26, 2017
Opening the California Legislature’s Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture hearing Wednesday, Chairman Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, said this year’s Klamath River Fall Chinook run is facing the lowest predicted numbers of returns ever. Furthermore, salmon on the West Coast are facing greater threats with the current White House administration in the forms of regulatory rollbacks that could affect California water use.
The simple fact is, McGuire said, that fish – especially salmon – need fresh, cold water. Instead, warm water, disease and parasites took their tolls on salmon in the Klamath River in recent years.
“We are now paying the price in full,” McGuire said. ...
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