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California to truck young salmon to the Pacific because of low river levels
In this 2014 photo, young salmon that have been transported by truck from the Coleman National Fish hatchery are loaded into a floating net suspended on a pontoon barge at Mare Island, Calif.
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SAN FRANCISCO
California officials will again truck millions of young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the Central Valley agricultural region to the Pacific Ocean because projected river conditions show that the waterways the fish use to travel downstream will be historically low and warm due to increasing drought.
Officials said the massive trucking operation is aimed at ensuring “the highest level of survival for the young salmon on their hazardous journey to the Pacific Ocean.”
There is dry dirt where water should be at Folsom Lake. A lack of wet weather is taking a toll on the state s water supply.Chris Orrock is a spokesperson for the California Department of Water Resources. He said while drought-like conditions are very common for the state, this year is worse than normal, especially considering back-to-back dry winters with little snow and rain. In fact, this year is a critically dry year, Orrock said.It is so dry, in fact, that DWR canceled Thursday s snow survey at Phillips Station because there was not enough snow on the ground. Orrock said much of the lower elevation snow is already gone and some of the higher elevation snow is beginning to melt as well. Snowmelt from the Sierra runs off into streams and rivers, feeding reservoirs and the water table, resulting in groundwater. Some of that runoff is being lost to absorption and evaporation before it can even make it to the reservoirs, the spokesperson said. The absorption loss comes from th
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