"For all its many problems, the Sacramento River still provides in most years most of the king salmon caught in the ocean off California and Oregon. The ocean sport salmon fisheries outside the San Francisco and Monterey bays usually are the most robust fisheries south of the Columbia River, and California typically has more commercial king salmon landings than any other state.
In addition, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta provide essential rearing, feeding or spawning habitat for sturgeon, California halibut, herring and Dungeness crab. And the bay, cleaner now than it's been for many years, has a huge capacity for growing oysters.
The biggest threat to this estuarine paradise is the volume of freshwater exported south from the delta. Two recently peer-reviewed scientific studies have criticized the high level of delta water exports.
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In addition, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta provide essential rearing, feeding or spawning habitat for sturgeon, California halibut, herring and Dungeness crab. And the bay, cleaner now than it's been for many years, has a huge capacity for growing oysters.
The biggest threat to this estuarine paradise is the volume of freshwater exported south from the delta. Two recently peer-reviewed scientific studies have criticized the high level of delta water exports.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openf...or-a-water-solution-3802446.php#ixzz24DrhuLOn
www.restorethedelta.org via Facebook
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openf...or-a-water-solution-3802446.php#ixzz24DkIq4kU