Litigation
May 20, 2014
Government actions to save salmon rile Central Valley farmers
Federal officials who operate a reservoir on a Klamath River tributary rushed to release extra water to avoid a salmon die off last summer, but farming interests want to block such actions in the future.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Last summer, the conditions in the Klamath River were perfect to foster a mass salmon die off - a huge number of fish were returning from the ocean to spawn, the water was warm, flows were low and the killer Ich pathogen was lurking. It was the same conditions present in 2002, when more than 34,000 salmon were estimated killed by the pathogen, leading to devastation among fishermen and the Indian tribes whose li...
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