Toward restoration of San Joaquin salmon run!

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The San Joaquin River was once home to three of the largest Chinook runs on the West Coast. The San Joaquin River Settlement took another step forward this week:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/07/BA5D10IFPU.DTL

Here is information on the proposed SJR settlement:

http://www.fwua.org/settlement/settlement.html

If you have some reading time this is a fine account of San Joaquin River natural history. This has background on the now extinct San Joaquin Chinook species.

http://www.fwua.org/Restoration/histcond.htm
 
Thanks for the info, yzer.

Personally, I'd just love to go blow up that Friant damn[:-banghead] Dam! Any one want to join me? [:-batman] [:-batman]
 
We may live to actually see Chinook on the San Joaquin again.

The extinct San Joaquin Chinook may have looked slightly different from the Sacramento Chinook. The salmon are considered to be different Chinook races rather than different species. In nature, seasonal runs and different spawning areas prevented interbreeding. San Joaquin Chinook were able to handle the 80 degree water during the summer and some spawned below Friant Dam. Biologists are pretty sure that given time and natural selection Sacramento Chinook can survive transplantation to the San Joaquin: provided some stream and waterflow restoration happens.

I hear you about Friant Dam. The original agreements for the dam included release of enough water to keep the salmon alive. The extinction of the San Joaquin Chinook in 1949 was completely illegal. Now that the dam has been there seventy years we have to make the best of the situation.
 
Even way back then, "they" would lie to get the water and then "promises" were never kept. Not much as changed.
 
Hey Liz, Isn't 'blow-up' one of the trigger words for the homeland security guys????

Let me know if you hear any helicopters.

Hey, Just saw an ad on TV for Vzer Family Vineyards. Related to Yzer???
 
It's too late Charlie. Liz's dambuster post has been up too long already and she's going to have a hard time the next time she tries to fly by airline.

Yzer is a river in Flanders. I'm mostly Flemish by ancestry.

Yzer is like Yreka, a town I like.

Third, I'm too wise to leak my name.
 
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