Today’s article by Alastair Bland in Yale Environment 360 provides a sobering overview of the challenges faced by California’s steelhead and salmon. It also exemplifies why we at California Trout work to protect the clean, cold water streams for the benefit of fish and people.
Now, scientists — who are observing increasing human demand for water, genetic decline of hatchery-reared salmon, and climate change models predicting intensified droughts — are concerned that the Chinook salmon will be unable to tolerate future river conditions and will all but vanish from California’s landscape.
Now, scientists — who are observing increasing human demand for water, genetic decline of hatchery-reared salmon, and climate change models predicting intensified droughts — are concerned that the Chinook salmon will be unable to tolerate future river conditions and will all but vanish from California’s landscape.
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