California's warmer waters and ongoing drought slows down state's fall Chinook hatchery run
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Reuters] by Sharon Bernstein - November 18, 2014
The annual fall migration of Chinook salmon has been delayed by warmer water temperatures and slow-flowing streams in parts of California as the state's three-year drought drags on, hatchery officials said Monday.
Cool November temperatures usually bring thousands of adult salmon from the Pacific Ocean into streams and rivers to spawn. But this year, fish have been slow to migrate up the American River to the state's hatchery near Sacramento, said William Cox, manager of the fish production and distribution program at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"They haven't come into the river at the same time that they would normally," Cox said...
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