Drought puts chinook salmon winter run in hot water

“One of the last wild runs of chinook salmon in California … appears perilously close to oblivion,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. Federal officials say “95 percent of winter-run chinook eggs, hatchlings and juvenile salmon died this year in the (Sacramento) River, which was too warm to support them despite conservation efforts.” It was the… » Read More

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