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Salmon Arriving in Record Low Numbers
By Jane Kay
The San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/013008EC.shtml

Wednesday 30 January 2008

The Central Valley fall run of chinook salmon apparently has
collapsed, portending sharp fishing restrictions and rising prices for
consumers while providing further evidence that the state's water
demands are causing widespread ecological damage.

...........s
"The low returns are particularly distressing since this stock has
consistently been the healthy 'workhorse' for salmon fisheries off
California and most of Oregon," the council's executive director,
Donald McIsaac, said in a statement Tuesday.

At its peak, the fall run has numbered hundreds of thousands of
fish, exceeding 800,000 in some years. But this year the preliminary
count has put the number at 90,000 adults returning to spawn in the
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries. During the
past decade, the number of returning fish has never fallen below
250,000.

Through the years, the chinook, or king, salmon that pass through
San Francisco Bay have suffered from diversions of freshwater to
cities and farms, the operation of the water-export pumps that send
delta water to other regions, exposure to pollutants and warming ocean
conditions.

"We've known that the numbers were going to come in low, but we
didn't know they would be this low," said Zeke Grader, executive
director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations,
which represents commercial fishermen. ........s
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