In Sunday’s Sacramento Bee, CalTrout’s Central California director, Jacob Katz, and Central Valley rice farmer, John Brennan, suggest that collaborative, innovative solutions are needed to solve the state’s salmon crisis.
To save California’s salmon, we need broader solutions that foster self-sustaining populations and address the entire salmon life cycle. Trap-and-haul and other approaches that rely on taking fish out of the river and putting them in trucks are extremely expensive and cannot, by definition, be self-sustaining,” suggests Katz and Brennan. “Real solutions will require fishermen and farmers, water suppliers, urban users, government agencies and environmentalists to take a clear-eyed look at California’s water systems, roll up our collective sleeves and implement practical actions to protect vital salmon runs for the long haul.”
To save California’s salmon, we need broader solutions that foster self-sustaining populations and address the entire salmon life cycle. Trap-and-haul and other approaches that rely on taking fish out of the river and putting them in trucks are extremely expensive and cannot, by definition, be self-sustaining,” suggests Katz and Brennan.
“Real solutions will require fishermen and farmers, water suppliers, urban users, government agencies and environmentalists to take a clear-eyed look at California’s water systems, roll up our collective sleeves and implement practical actions to protect vital salmon runs for the long haul.”