Ancient DNA and New Technology Help Rewrite the Life Story of Klamath Spring Chinook
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [North Coast Journal] By Kimberly Wear - August 23, 2017
Tribal fishermen used the cave nestled in the Upper Klamath Basin for untold generations.
Now the spring run Chinook bones they left behind — some dating back 5,000 years — are providing a vital link between past and present in a race against time to save the fish that has disappeared from those rivers.
Only two wild spring runs remain lower down in the basin and those contain just a fraction of the hundreds of thousands that once swam in the sprawling network of Klamath waterways that cover an expanse the size of New England...
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