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  • California’s endangered Chinook are dying before they can spawn

    http://redgreenandblue.org/2021/05/25/californias-endangered-chinook-dying-can-spawn/ Published on May 25th, 2021 By Dan Bacher Over 30 years ago, my boss, Hal Bonslett, and I went to meeting after meeting and wrote article after article demanding that winter-run Chinook salmon be listed under the federal and state Endangered Species Act. The fish was finally listed under both state and federal law,…

  • No, California isn’t ‘flushing water to the ocean,’ despite what Fresno politicians say

    https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek-warszawski/article251201079.html By Marek Warszawski May 07, 2021 05:00 AM It’s that time of drought again. During one of the driest years on record, once again curtailing water deliveries to local farms, Fresno-area lawmakers wasted little time trotting out one of their favorite falsehoods. That every year, including the parched ones like 2021, California “wastes” millions…

  • 16.8 million young hatchery salmon get truck rides to San Francisco Bay

    https://www.recordnet.com/story/sports/2021/05/04/california-drought-16-8-million-young-hatchery-salmon-get-truck-rides-san-francisco-bay/4941501001/ Dan Bacher Published 12:57 pm PT May 4, 2021 – updated 1:00 pm PT May 4, 2021 All of the juvenile chinook salmon (smolts) from state fish hatcheries are getting truck rides to saltwater this spring to increase their survival, triggered by projected poor conditions in the Sacramento River and other Central Valley rivers…

  • Hatchery salmon releases scheduled in San Francisco Bay due to poor river conditions

    http://redgreenandblue.org/2021/05/02/hatchery-salmon-releases-scheduled-san-francisco-bay-due-poor-river-conditions/ Dan Bacher Published on May 2nd, 2021 Over 16.8 million young Chinook salmon from four Central Valley hatcheries — the Feather River, Nimbus, Mokelumne and Merced facilities — will be trucked to release sites around the San Pablo and San Francisco bays and in Half Moon and Monterey bays, according to the CDFW. The…

  • California AG believes proposal to drill for gas in Suisun Marsh is not ‘in the public interest’

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/4/2024342/-California-AG-believes-proposal-to-drill-for-gas-in-Suisun-Marsh-is-not-in-the-public-interest Dan Bacher Sunday April 04, 2021 · 2:59 AM PDT In California, so-called “protected areas” on both land and water are often NOT protected from oil and gas drilling. The classic case of this is the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative that failed to protect the ocean from oil and gas…