OPINION: California Salmon Must Return to the Mountains. It's Time to Take a Chance
Late in the 19th century on the McCloud River below Mount Shasta, California's first hatchery began creating thousands of salmon embryos for an audacious plan to establish populations of California salmon throughout the Midwest and the Eastern seaboard of the United States. The effort failed miserably.
Some, however, thrived after their embryos were transported all the way to New Zealand. There and only there did this relocation experiment work. For more than 100 years on South Island rivers like the Waitaki, California salmon, believed...
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