The salmon industry faces extinction — not because of drought, but government policies and politics

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State and federal government policies that favor farms have done far more damage to the salmon fishery than drought, another sign that California's water rights need rethinking.

Snapshots from an environmental and economic disaster: Kenneth Brown, the owner of Bodega Tackle in Petaluma, reckons he has lost almost $450,000 in the last year. 'I haven't taken a paycheck in seven or eight months,' he says. He has had to lay off all but one employee, leaving himself, his son and the one remaining worker to run the business. James Stone, board president of the Nor-Cal Guides & Sportsmen's Assn.

At water temperatures of 54 degrees, they start being cooked to death. Irrigation releases from Shasta suck down the reservoir's cold water, leaving surface water heated by the sun; that's what ends up in the Sacramento River at spawning season. In recent years, water in the spawning beds has been measured at 70 degrees or higher. In 2021, state biologists reported, 99% of winter-run Chinook salmon failed to reach the San Francisco-San Joaquin River delta and the bay.

 

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