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Can We Do Something About It?","publishDate":1712138436,"format":"audio","headTitle":"A Toxic Dust Threatens Salmon. Can We Do Something About It? | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s salmon are still in decline — so much so that fishery managers may cancel the state’s salmon season for the second straight year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawmakers, environmental groups and tribes have identified one part of the problem: toxic dust that comes from our tires. KQED’s Ezra David Romero tells us how we can fix this problem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992122/toxic-dust-threatens-california-salmon-population-lawmaker-seeks-solution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toxic Dust Threatens California Salmon Population, Lawmaker Seeks Solution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3045338206&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong> I’m Alan Monticello in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. California’s salmon are still in big trouble. So much so that fishery managers might cancel salmon season for the second straight year. That would have a big impact on the fishers and tribes who rely on salmon for their livelihoods. Now, salmon are dying in large part because of how we manage our water system. But lawmakers and advocates have also identified another issue. A toxic chemical that’s used in our everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think that was like a moment that flabbergasted me that like, my actions are doing this. And I think that’s what separates this story from, say, other salmon stories today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>My colleague Ezra David Romero introduces us to one fisher who’s worried about this salmon season and tells us about an effort to do something about this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Dick Ogg is the salmon fisherman who lives in bodega Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>My name is Dick Ogg. I own and operate the fishing vessel Karine Jean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He’s 71, and he’s been fishing there for something like 51 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I’m very passionate about maintaining and supporting the commercial and fishing industry in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He’s sort of that, like, grandpa type of person who’s funny and who’s going to put you in your place and has a lot of information. And he knows salmon really well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I’m 71 now, so, you know, I mean, I’ve been doing this for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He has this like almost spiritual view of the fish that they’re the strong intellectual creature, you know, that like, makes these long journeys from the deep oceans up through watersheds or rivers and lay their eggs up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>And all the fish that I can think of this salmon is probably has one of the greatest spirits of them all. I mean, when they come up, they can take a look and bend it straight so that they can get away. And if you try to do that with your own fingers, you couldn’t do it. You just couldn’t do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And when I asked him about, like, if these fish are getting away or there’s not enough, he’s like, I think that’s actually okay. Like the more fish that can go up the river and spawn, the better. He kind of like honors the life cycle of these fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What if the past few salmon season’s been like for him, including this one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The past couple of years have been really tough for Dick, because last year they canceled the salmon season altogether, and their fishery managers are warning they might do that again this year because there’s just so few salmon in the ocean off the California coast, and that number has been decreasing over time. And he said the last really great year he had was back in 2011. So he hasn’t had many good years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I think you need to be patient right now. It’s difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>How will a lack of salmon affect him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think it’s a bummer for him in two ways. First of all, you know, his livelihood depends partly on salmon. He does fish other things. But if the salmon go away and people love the salmon and serve, you know, it’s a high dollar fish. You know, that part of his livelihood, it’s essentially gone. Yes, I figure something else out. And second of all, I think just spiritually like the fish are something that he has this connection with over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I don’t know anyone in on the commercial in that at this point wants to go try to to fish for the minimal potential that we were offering. They would much rather the week and have a reasonable season, maybe next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Ezra, we are talking about this now because California might cancel its salmon season again. What are the chances that could happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It seems like they’re pretty high. I mean, we won’t know for like a month or two if that actually goes down. But all the Fisher people I talked to for this story are saying this is what they’re hearing is going to happen, so they’re preparing for that. The perils against salmon are many. They’re dying because we’ve cut off the waterways or rivers or streams from the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We put dams up and reservoirs that collect all of this water that cut them off from their spawning habitats that are often way up streams, right, like up a creek in an area with a small amount of water. We also have droughts that decrease water flows in the rivers that also warm up water when we have all these hot days. And that’s a an effect of human caused climate change, which is as a result of warming water as well. There’s also overfishing. There’s also people’s love for salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So we’re eating a lot more salmon than ever. So all of those things combined create a dire scenario for the salmon that Dick Ogg: loves. On top of all those factors like droughts and reservoirs, there’s something that everybody uses that’s affecting these fish. It’s a chemical in tires called 6PPD. Environmentalists are worried about it. Lawmakers are worried about it. Tribes are worried about it. And even the tire manufacturing industry is thinking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So let’s get into this chemical, which I had not heard of before. This story is called 6PPD. What is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s this chemical that tire manufacturers put in the slurry that makes tires. It basically preserves them so they don’t wear out as fast. And it’s in every tire. As you drive your car around town or anywhere. Little pieces of your tire break off, right? They wear out. And in those pieces of tire that chemical exists, those little pieces that are on the roads. So we have these really big storms or really any storm in California which we know are intensifying because of human caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Those chemicals get into water, and then they flow out to the ocean, or they flow out into a river or stream. And when dissolved in that water, fish breathe that in. And then it kills them within two hours. The idea is that it thickens their blood. And fish have this brain barrier that separates their blood from their brain. But this chemical. Where’s that out? And blood floods their brain, essentially, like frying their brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What do we know about how big of a problem 6PPD is for salmon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s harder to estimate, like exactly how many fish have died in California. But when we look at studies from Washington, where they’ve studied this extensively. In some of these creeks and rivers, they found that just in one waterway, up to 90% of salmon died from this. And so it can have like a huge effect. Another study showed that even if the contaminant 6PPD is diluted by like 95% of water, right, it can still kill fish. They also found this chemical in San Francisco waterways and also in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What federal and state authorities are trying to do about six PPD. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Are there efforts to ban this? Since so many people are concerned about its effects on fish and the environment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Last summer, tribes from across the West Coast primarily petitioned the US EPA to, you know, have tire manufacturers stop using this chemical. And that sort of resulted in the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. That’s the agency that regulates, you know, hazardous substances across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>They required the tire industry to provide them a list of alternatives. And that was due, I believe, last Friday on the 30th of March. And now that agency has about two months to think about. Is there an alternative for using this in tires that maybe won’t harm other fish or kill these fish as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What do tire manufacturers think of this idea? If you know, the government is saying, hey, we might ban a chemical that you use to make your products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I’m sure at first they weren’t really excited that they’re going to have to change their ingredient list. It’s something that’s been on market for like 50 plus years. But when I talk to the tire industry, you know, they seem very compliant, like they want they’re going to work on this and they’re seeing the effects happening. The fish seems like they’re willing to change their ingredient list, but time will tell. And to even change that would take years, maybe decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Right. Because even if this chemical were banned tomorrow, there are all these tires out there with this chemical already. So what else is being done to reduce the potential harm now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, this assemblymember from San Mateo named Dianne Patterson, introduced a bill in March to do something about this. Her idea is to rid these waterways of six PPD, and how she wants to do this is by requiring Caltrans. That’s the state’s leading transportation agency, to create five pilot projects in different ecosystems across the state, three of which are in the Bay area in San Mateo County, Sonoma and Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And what they want to do is go to five areas where a highway, say, goes over a river or creek, and they want to put in these culverts, you know, which are just little canals, and then put all that water and say, like a big holding pond. And the idea is that plants and soil will clean the water of this chemical, and after the water is treated, it can go flow into the river and not kill fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Could this effort be expanded beyond these five pilot projects?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. The lawmaker also is asking Caltrans to create a map of areas where salmon are in the most at risk. As part of this. So they’ll do these five projects and then they’ll get an idea of like, where else can we do this across the state to target the most at risk populations of salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So we have these kind of two ideas in tandem, right. You could ban six PPD from being used in tires, which would take a very long time. And then you also have this creative kind of green infrastructure type solution. What’s the ideal scenario here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think the idea is plainly to like have salmon not die because of this chemical. Right? So that means in the near term, treating the water and in the long term banning the 6PPD use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I mean, based on what you’re saying. Is it fair to say there is hope to get rid of this dangerous chemical that poses such a threat to our salmon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>All the evidence and interviews I did point to that, that this chemical could be removed. Tribes alerted the federal government, and now tire manufacturers are paying attention to it and are responsible to the state of California to do something about this. So I think there is positive momentum, but at the same time, I think it’s a really big feat. There are millions of cars on California roads, like I have a car. I don’t really want to put new tires on, I just did. But like if the tires are killing all these fish, maybe we should. So I think there’s a really big feet ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What did you learn in this story that you didn’t know before about the challenges facing Sam in our climate and our water systems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I quite simply didn’t know that this chemical was killing fish from my Prius tires. I drive in the mountains all the time. I go to Sonoma, I like go hiking, and I park next to creeks all the time in the tire dust from my car is killing, potentially killing the fish in that. I think that was the moment that flabbergasted me that my actions are doing this. And I think that’s what separates this story from, say, other salmon stories that are about how our water infrastructure is set up or like how we’ve built our waterways in California, or like what water managers are doing to like, decrease water flows. This is about something that we all do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And it also seems like, at least in this case, there could be a clear path forward to reducing or even eliminating this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Definitely. Perhaps a solution is nigh or coming up close. There’s positive momentum here, and you don’t often hear that with salmon stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Ezra, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Ezra David Romero, a climate reporter for KQED. This conversation was cut down by Ellie Prickett-Morgan. Dana Cronin scored this episode and added the tape. Additional production support from myself and Maria Esquinca. Music courtesy of Audio Network and Universal Production Music. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. What’s your favorite Beyonce album?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think Renaissance, my favorite Beyoncé song is Freakum Dress. It’s a good one. Everyone forgets about it, but, you know, we all have that dress or outfit that you wear to the club.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Toxic dust that comes from our tires is contributing to the declining in salmon. 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Can We Do Something About It?","datePublished":"2024-04-03T10:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-04T01:26:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC3045338206.mp3?updated=1712089756","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","adSlotOverride":"300x250_inHouse","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981642/a-toxic-dust-threatens-salmon-can-we-do-something-about-it","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California’s salmon are still in decline — so much so that fishery managers may cancel the state’s salmon season for the second straight year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lawmakers, environmental groups and tribes have identified one part of the problem: toxic dust that comes from our tires. KQED’s Ezra David Romero tells us how we can fix this problem.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992122/toxic-dust-threatens-california-salmon-population-lawmaker-seeks-solution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toxic Dust Threatens California Salmon Population, Lawmaker Seeks Solution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3045338206&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong> I’m Alan Monticello in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. California’s salmon are still in big trouble. So much so that fishery managers might cancel salmon season for the second straight year. That would have a big impact on the fishers and tribes who rely on salmon for their livelihoods. Now, salmon are dying in large part because of how we manage our water system. But lawmakers and advocates have also identified another issue. A toxic chemical that’s used in our everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think that was like a moment that flabbergasted me that like, my actions are doing this. And I think that’s what separates this story from, say, other salmon stories today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>My colleague Ezra David Romero introduces us to one fisher who’s worried about this salmon season and tells us about an effort to do something about this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Dick Ogg is the salmon fisherman who lives in bodega Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>My name is Dick Ogg. I own and operate the fishing vessel Karine Jean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He’s 71, and he’s been fishing there for something like 51 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I’m very passionate about maintaining and supporting the commercial and fishing industry in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He’s sort of that, like, grandpa type of person who’s funny and who’s going to put you in your place and has a lot of information. And he knows salmon really well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I’m 71 now, so, you know, I mean, I’ve been doing this for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>He has this like almost spiritual view of the fish that they’re the strong intellectual creature, you know, that like, makes these long journeys from the deep oceans up through watersheds or rivers and lay their eggs up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>And all the fish that I can think of this salmon is probably has one of the greatest spirits of them all. I mean, when they come up, they can take a look and bend it straight so that they can get away. And if you try to do that with your own fingers, you couldn’t do it. You just couldn’t do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And when I asked him about, like, if these fish are getting away or there’s not enough, he’s like, I think that’s actually okay. Like the more fish that can go up the river and spawn, the better. He kind of like honors the life cycle of these fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What if the past few salmon season’s been like for him, including this one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>The past couple of years have been really tough for Dick, because last year they canceled the salmon season altogether, and their fishery managers are warning they might do that again this year because there’s just so few salmon in the ocean off the California coast, and that number has been decreasing over time. And he said the last really great year he had was back in 2011. So he hasn’t had many good years since then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I think you need to be patient right now. It’s difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>How will a lack of salmon affect him?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think it’s a bummer for him in two ways. First of all, you know, his livelihood depends partly on salmon. He does fish other things. But if the salmon go away and people love the salmon and serve, you know, it’s a high dollar fish. You know, that part of his livelihood, it’s essentially gone. Yes, I figure something else out. And second of all, I think just spiritually like the fish are something that he has this connection with over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dick Ogg: \u003c/strong>I don’t know anyone in on the commercial in that at this point wants to go try to to fish for the minimal potential that we were offering. They would much rather the week and have a reasonable season, maybe next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Ezra, we are talking about this now because California might cancel its salmon season again. What are the chances that could happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It seems like they’re pretty high. I mean, we won’t know for like a month or two if that actually goes down. But all the Fisher people I talked to for this story are saying this is what they’re hearing is going to happen, so they’re preparing for that. The perils against salmon are many. They’re dying because we’ve cut off the waterways or rivers or streams from the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>We put dams up and reservoirs that collect all of this water that cut them off from their spawning habitats that are often way up streams, right, like up a creek in an area with a small amount of water. We also have droughts that decrease water flows in the rivers that also warm up water when we have all these hot days. And that’s a an effect of human caused climate change, which is as a result of warming water as well. There’s also overfishing. There’s also people’s love for salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>So we’re eating a lot more salmon than ever. So all of those things combined create a dire scenario for the salmon that Dick Ogg: loves. On top of all those factors like droughts and reservoirs, there’s something that everybody uses that’s affecting these fish. It’s a chemical in tires called 6PPD. Environmentalists are worried about it. Lawmakers are worried about it. Tribes are worried about it. And even the tire manufacturing industry is thinking about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So let’s get into this chemical, which I had not heard of before. This story is called 6PPD. What is it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s this chemical that tire manufacturers put in the slurry that makes tires. It basically preserves them so they don’t wear out as fast. And it’s in every tire. As you drive your car around town or anywhere. Little pieces of your tire break off, right? They wear out. And in those pieces of tire that chemical exists, those little pieces that are on the roads. So we have these really big storms or really any storm in California which we know are intensifying because of human caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Those chemicals get into water, and then they flow out to the ocean, or they flow out into a river or stream. And when dissolved in that water, fish breathe that in. And then it kills them within two hours. The idea is that it thickens their blood. And fish have this brain barrier that separates their blood from their brain. But this chemical. Where’s that out? And blood floods their brain, essentially, like frying their brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What do we know about how big of a problem 6PPD is for salmon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>It’s harder to estimate, like exactly how many fish have died in California. But when we look at studies from Washington, where they’ve studied this extensively. In some of these creeks and rivers, they found that just in one waterway, up to 90% of salmon died from this. And so it can have like a huge effect. Another study showed that even if the contaminant 6PPD is diluted by like 95% of water, right, it can still kill fish. They also found this chemical in San Francisco waterways and also in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What federal and state authorities are trying to do about six PPD. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Are there efforts to ban this? Since so many people are concerned about its effects on fish and the environment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Last summer, tribes from across the West Coast primarily petitioned the US EPA to, you know, have tire manufacturers stop using this chemical. And that sort of resulted in the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. That’s the agency that regulates, you know, hazardous substances across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>They required the tire industry to provide them a list of alternatives. And that was due, I believe, last Friday on the 30th of March. And now that agency has about two months to think about. Is there an alternative for using this in tires that maybe won’t harm other fish or kill these fish as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What do tire manufacturers think of this idea? If you know, the government is saying, hey, we might ban a chemical that you use to make your products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I’m sure at first they weren’t really excited that they’re going to have to change their ingredient list. It’s something that’s been on market for like 50 plus years. But when I talk to the tire industry, you know, they seem very compliant, like they want they’re going to work on this and they’re seeing the effects happening. The fish seems like they’re willing to change their ingredient list, but time will tell. And to even change that would take years, maybe decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Right. Because even if this chemical were banned tomorrow, there are all these tires out there with this chemical already. So what else is being done to reduce the potential harm now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Well, this assemblymember from San Mateo named Dianne Patterson, introduced a bill in March to do something about this. Her idea is to rid these waterways of six PPD, and how she wants to do this is by requiring Caltrans. That’s the state’s leading transportation agency, to create five pilot projects in different ecosystems across the state, three of which are in the Bay area in San Mateo County, Sonoma and Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>And what they want to do is go to five areas where a highway, say, goes over a river or creek, and they want to put in these culverts, you know, which are just little canals, and then put all that water and say, like a big holding pond. And the idea is that plants and soil will clean the water of this chemical, and after the water is treated, it can go flow into the river and not kill fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Could this effort be expanded beyond these five pilot projects?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. The lawmaker also is asking Caltrans to create a map of areas where salmon are in the most at risk. As part of this. So they’ll do these five projects and then they’ll get an idea of like, where else can we do this across the state to target the most at risk populations of salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So we have these kind of two ideas in tandem, right. You could ban six PPD from being used in tires, which would take a very long time. And then you also have this creative kind of green infrastructure type solution. What’s the ideal scenario here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think the idea is plainly to like have salmon not die because of this chemical. Right? So that means in the near term, treating the water and in the long term banning the 6PPD use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I mean, based on what you’re saying. Is it fair to say there is hope to get rid of this dangerous chemical that poses such a threat to our salmon?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>All the evidence and interviews I did point to that, that this chemical could be removed. Tribes alerted the federal government, and now tire manufacturers are paying attention to it and are responsible to the state of California to do something about this. So I think there is positive momentum, but at the same time, I think it’s a really big feat. There are millions of cars on California roads, like I have a car. I don’t really want to put new tires on, I just did. But like if the tires are killing all these fish, maybe we should. So I think there’s a really big feet ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What did you learn in this story that you didn’t know before about the challenges facing Sam in our climate and our water systems?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I quite simply didn’t know that this chemical was killing fish from my Prius tires. I drive in the mountains all the time. I go to Sonoma, I like go hiking, and I park next to creeks all the time in the tire dust from my car is killing, potentially killing the fish in that. I think that was the moment that flabbergasted me that my actions are doing this. And I think that’s what separates this story from, say, other salmon stories that are about how our water infrastructure is set up or like how we’ve built our waterways in California, or like what water managers are doing to like, decrease water flows. This is about something that we all do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And it also seems like, at least in this case, there could be a clear path forward to reducing or even eliminating this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Definitely. Perhaps a solution is nigh or coming up close. There’s positive momentum here, and you don’t often hear that with salmon stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Ezra, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>Thanks for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Ezra David Romero, a climate reporter for KQED. This conversation was cut down by Ellie Prickett-Morgan. Dana Cronin scored this episode and added the tape. Additional production support from myself and Maria Esquinca. Music courtesy of Audio Network and Universal Production Music. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. What’s your favorite Beyonce album?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ezra David Romero: \u003c/strong>I think Renaissance, my favorite Beyoncé song is Freakum Dress. It’s a good one. Everyone forgets about it, but, you know, we all have that dress or outfit that you wear to the club.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981642/a-toxic-dust-threatens-salmon-can-we-do-something-about-it","authors":["11649","11746","11802","11362","11898"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_255","news_3531","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11184522","label":"source_news_11981642"},"news_11979008":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979008","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979008","score":null,"sort":[1710253846000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"simply-catastrophic-california-salmon-season-to-be-restricted-or-shut-down-again","title":"'Simply Catastrophic': California Salmon Season to Be Restricted or Shut Down — Again","publishDate":1710253846,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Simply Catastrophic’: California Salmon Season to Be Restricted or Shut Down — Again | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California’s fishing industry is bracing for another bad year as federal managers announced Monday plans to heavily restrict or prohibit salmon fishing again after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/03/california-salmon-fishery-shut-down/\">canceling the entire season last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Monday released \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-9-a-supplemental-stt-report-1-salmon-technical-team-report-collation-of-preliminary-salmon-management-alternatives-for-2024-ocean-fisheries.pdf/\">a series of options\u003c/a> that are under consideration, all of which either ban commercial and recreational salmon fishing in the ocean off California or shorten the season and set strict catch limits. The council’s decision is expected next month; the commercial season \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/16/2022-10430/fisheries-off-west-coast-states-west-coast-salmon-fisheries-2022-specifications-and-management\">typically begins in May and ends in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more Chinook salmon returned from the ocean to spawn last year than in 2022, fishery managers said the population is expected to be so small that they must be protected this year to avoid overfishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fall-run Chinook salmon are a mainstay of commercial and recreational fishing and tribal food supplies. But their populations are \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233103975_Historical_Abundance_and_Decline_of_Chinook_Salmon_in_the_Central_Valley_Region_of_California\">now a fraction of what they once were\u003c/a> — dams have blocked vital habitat, while droughts and water diversions have driven down flows and increased temperatures, killing large numbers of salmon eggs and young fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is a devastating blow for an industry still reeling from last year’s closure. State officials estimate that last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/California-Salmon-Disaster-Request-Letter-04.06.23.pdf?emrc=872969\">closure\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/federal-assistance-for-california-salmon-fisheries-available-in-31-counties/\">cost about $45 million\u003c/a> — which the fishing industry says vastly underestimates the actual toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to sugarcoat it, as it’s simply catastrophic,” said Scott Artis, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://goldenstatesalmon.org/mission-2/\">Golden State Salmon Association\u003c/a>, which represents the commercial and recreational fishing industry, other businesses, restaurants and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fishing industry and many thousands of salmon families and businesses eagerly waiting to get back to work are potentially facing another year in the harbor instead of putting food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The options are likely to evolve as the Pacific Fishery Management Council continues to analyze them over the next month. Two call for significantly shortened seasons and harvest limits for both commercial and sport fishing off California this year. The third would cancel the season for the second year in a row.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Scott Artis, executive director, Golden State Salmon Association\"]‘The fishing industry and many thousands of salmon families and businesses eagerly waiting to get back to work are potentially facing another year in the harbor instead of putting food on the table.’[/pullquote]“In response to poor river and ocean conditions, California stocks are forecast to have 2024 abundance levels that are well below average,” \u003ca href=\"https://fisheries.legislature.ca.gov/sites/fisheries.legislature.ca.gov/files/u8/9%20Marci%20Yaremko%20Biography.pdf\">Marci Yaremko\u003c/a>, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s appointee to the Pacific council, said Monday. “The options that have been developed that do authorize some fishing are very precautionary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvest limits and other restrictions on the number of fish caught per trip are new concepts for managing ocean salmon fisheries, Yaremko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the best option that they give us there is crumbs compared to a regular salmon season,” said Jared Davis, captain of the Salty Lady, a charter fishing boat.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, of all the options, he said, he’d prefer complete closure. The shortened seasons don’t offer enough days to sustain his business, and the potential repercussions aren’t worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think fishing on low abundance, such as we have this year, is reckless and irresponsible,” he said. “It’s really playing with fire for us to take any fish out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/04/close-california-salmon-season-fisherman/\">Sarah Bates\u003c/a>, who owns a commercial fishing boat berthed at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, called the decision “tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at numbers of fish that don’t even make it worthwhile to untie the boat,” she said. “It’s not enough fish to pay for the maintenance and preparation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Davis stands aboard his charter fishing boat, the Salty Lady, in Richmond on March 8, 2023. The end of the salmon season has left him struggling to make a living. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A financial nightmare — some may never fish again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>RJ Waldron, 48, put his sports fishing boat, the Sundance, up for sale in January\u003cem>.\u003c/em> When the salmon season closed last year, an estimated 85% of his business dried up. Few clients took him up on his offer to switch to halibut, striped bass or rockfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buying the boat eight years ago to run a charter fishing business out of the East Bay had been a dream come true for Waldron, a long-time fishing and hunting guide. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"RJ Waldron\"]‘Basically, this last year, I’ve just been blowing through my cash, blowing through the savings, just trying to stay afloat. I put everything I had into this fishing business, into the salmon. And it’s totally out of my control. I can’t resurrect it.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, this last year, I’ve just been blowing through my cash, blowing through the savings, just trying to stay afloat,” Waldron said. “I put everything I had into this fishing business, into the salmon. And it’s totally out of my control. I can’t resurrect it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s commercial fleet and recreational anglers still await federal disaster aid for last year’s losses. The federal government allocated only \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/us-department-of-commerce-allocates-over-206m-in-fishery-disaster-funding\">$20.6 million in disaster funding\u003c/a>, and a year later, none of the salmon fishers CalMatters interviewed received a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldron called the lack of disaster aid a “big slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said he tried to weather the storm by arranging trips for halibut, striped bass, rockfish and lingcod. Still, he estimates that his business was down 80% from a normal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the season restricted this year “breaks my heart,” he said. “It’s what I love, and it’s a passion. It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life, and I know that there’s a lot of others in the industry that it’s the same for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979038\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing boats at a dry dock in Richmond on March 8, 2023. Many recreational and commercial salmon fishing ventures have shut down. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salmon fishers fear the closure will drive yet more boats permanently from the fleet — already down to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/02/review-of-2023-ocean-salmon-fisheries.pdf/\">464 vessels\u003c/a> in 2022 from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/02/review-of-2023-ocean-salmon-fisheries.pdf/#page=356\">nearly 5,000 in the early ‘80s\u003c/a>. Recreational salmon fishing trips plummeted from nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/02/review-of-2023-ocean-salmon-fisheries.pdf/\">99,000 in 2022 to zero\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates estimates that about half of the fleet took shore jobs. And some, she said, probably won’t return.[aside postID=\"news_11974963,news_11954645,news_11974205\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]“Some people, I’m sure, will not go fishing again,” she said. “They got a job that will hold them through and their momentum will shift, and I’m sure we’re going to lose members of our fleet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make ends meet last year, Bates picked up bookkeeping work. But she doesn’t know yet what she’ll do this year. Bates’ boat is called the Bounty, a cruel irony now. Still, she said the boat has seen bad seasons before — and it’s bad luck to change a boat’s name, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tommy “TF” Graham also will keep working on land. A commercial fisherman based in Bodega Bay, he got a Class A driver’s license so he could drive a truck and stay afloat through the closures. Now, when he’s not crab fishing, Graham wakes up at 3 a.m. to drive frozen and farmed salmon and other fish from around the world into San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A guy has got to get up and put his boots on and go to work every day,” Graham said. Still, he said, “I used to be a provider; now I’m a consumer. It feels like shit, to tell you the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drought and water diversions kill salmon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Monday’s decision follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">the release of population numbers\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2024-02/D2-FisheryStructurepresentation-for-WG-01302024.pdf\">Sacramento River fall-run Chinook\u003c/a>, which make up the greatest proportion of California and Oregon ocean salmon fisheries. Their numbers are down from an average of more than 200,000 fish that returned to spawn in the mid-2000s. And those numbers are a fraction \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233103975_Historical_Abundance_and_Decline_of_Chinook_Salmon_in_the_Central_Valley_Region_of_California\">of the historical counts\u003c/a> of between one and two million fall and spring-run salmon returning to the Central Valley every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/91bCe/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, fewer than \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">134,000 returned to\u003c/a> the Sacramento River. That’s more than double the fish that returned in 2022, which was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/03/california-salmon-fishery-shut-down/\">the third-lowest count on record\u003c/a>. But it barely cleared the federal government’s minimum conservation target of 122,000 fish and fell 19% short of the number that had been projected to return — despite the cancellation of all salmon fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, scientists estimate that 213,606 Sacramento River fall-run salmon are swimming off the coast. It’s more than last year — more even than the upper limit of the fishery’s conservation target. However, it is still the second lowest projection in a decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">according to a guidance letter from the National Marine Fisheries Service\u003c/a>. “Caution is warranted to reduce the chances that the stock becomes overfished again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">attributed the struggling populations in part to low flows and high temperatures\u003c/a> on the Sacramento River during California’s drought in 2021, when the fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">returning this year\u003c/a> were spawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the salmon industry also points to state and federal management of the Sacramento River and operations of the vast Central Valley Project, which funnels water south from Northern California’s rivers to irrigate \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/projects/index.php?id=506\">a third of the state’s agricultural land and supply a million households\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, almost all of the endangered winter-run Chinook eggs in the Sacramento River were wiped out — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/climate/river-temperatures-and-survival-endangered-california-winter-run-chinook-salmon\">cooked in dangerously hot water\u003c/a>. The Pacific Fishery Management Council told state and federal water managers in 2022 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2022/09/september-2022-letter-to-nmfs-bor-and-ca-state-water-resources-control-board.pdf/\">the conditions\u003c/a> also could harm eggs of spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon. Expressing their “grave concerns,” they said “a major factor” was the “high river temperatures that were under (the U.S. Bureau of) Reclamation’s control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aemJd/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/01/california-salmon-newsom-plan/\">Newsom administration has come under fire\u003c/a> from conservationists and the fishing industry for actions that could jeopardize salmon. These include \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/water-board-waives-environmental-rules-delta-water/\">waiving water quality requirements in the Delta\u003c/a> and backing a controversial pact with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/09/california-delta-bay-plan/\">major water suppliers related to diversions from the Bay-Delta watershed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard for me to swallow that we export all this water and have little to no regulation on the farming,” Waldron said. “We’re taking away from a resource to give to another resource. And I don’t understand how we can let that happen, especially (since) the salmon are a natural resource.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/01/california-salmon-newsom-plan/\">unveiled a plan\u003c/a> in January aimed at protecting and restoring salmon “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Perpetual situation’ for the Yurok Tribe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Yurok Tribe in far Northern California is expecting restrictions this year as well, based on the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Klamath Tribal allocation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-9-a-supplemental-stt-report-1-salmon-technical-team-report-collation-of-preliminary-salmon-management-alternatives-for-2024-ocean-fisheries.pdf/#page=5\">roughly 6,300 to 6,600 fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A commercial fishery is completely out of the question,” Barry McCovey Jr., who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.yuroktribe.org/fisheries\">fisheries program\u003c/a> for the Yurok, the largest tribe in California with a reservation spanning \u003ca href=\"https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/dam-migration/yurok_klamath_doi_2011.pdf\">a 45-mile stretch of the lower Klamath River\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re looking at now — that’s not enough for one fish for every tribal member. It’s less than that. And a typical family could maybe use 30 or 40, or maybe even 50 fish a year.”[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Barry McCovey Jr., biologist, Yurok Tribe fisheries program \"]‘We’re salmon people. That’s who we are. To have that opportunity not be there was very, very devastating on so many levels. It’s not just about food. It’s about culture.’[/pullquote]Collapsing salmon populations on the Klamath have forced the Yurok Tribe to cancel its commercial fishery every year since 2015 but one. Last year, the tribe also closed down subsistence fishing and served no Klamath River salmon at its annual salmon festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re salmon people. That’s who we are,” McCovey said. “To have that opportunity not be there was very, very devastating on so many levels. It’s not just about food. It’s about culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been going on for a long time,” he added. “It’s starting to be a perpetual situation that we’re in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said salmon are on life support, although more returned last year than since 2018, which McCovey said might be due to the canceled fisheries. He hopes that the salmon will eventually recover with the demolition of hydroelectric dams and the tribe’s restoration efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually, this is going to end. We’re going to come out of this. We’re too hard-headed to give up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Chinook counts are less dire than last year, but fishery managers are still opting to heavily reduce or ban commercial and recreational fishing this year because 'caution is warranted.' The salmon industry is devastated.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710285627,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/91bCe/4/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aemJd/2/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":2299},"headData":{"title":"'Simply Catastrophic': California Salmon Season to Be Restricted or Shut Down — Again | KQED","description":"Chinook counts are less dire than last year, but fishery managers are still opting to heavily reduce or ban commercial and recreational fishing this year because 'caution is warranted.' The salmon industry is devastated.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Simply Catastrophic': California Salmon Season to Be Restricted or Shut Down — Again","datePublished":"2024-03-12T14:30:46.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-12T23:20:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rachel-becker/\">Rachel Becker\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979008/simply-catastrophic-california-salmon-season-to-be-restricted-or-shut-down-again","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s fishing industry is bracing for another bad year as federal managers announced Monday plans to heavily restrict or prohibit salmon fishing again after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/03/california-salmon-fishery-shut-down/\">canceling the entire season last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Monday released \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-9-a-supplemental-stt-report-1-salmon-technical-team-report-collation-of-preliminary-salmon-management-alternatives-for-2024-ocean-fisheries.pdf/\">a series of options\u003c/a> that are under consideration, all of which either ban commercial and recreational salmon fishing in the ocean off California or shorten the season and set strict catch limits. The council’s decision is expected next month; the commercial season \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/05/16/2022-10430/fisheries-off-west-coast-states-west-coast-salmon-fisheries-2022-specifications-and-management\">typically begins in May and ends in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While more Chinook salmon returned from the ocean to spawn last year than in 2022, fishery managers said the population is expected to be so small that they must be protected this year to avoid overfishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fall-run Chinook salmon are a mainstay of commercial and recreational fishing and tribal food supplies. But their populations are \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233103975_Historical_Abundance_and_Decline_of_Chinook_Salmon_in_the_Central_Valley_Region_of_California\">now a fraction of what they once were\u003c/a> — dams have blocked vital habitat, while droughts and water diversions have driven down flows and increased temperatures, killing large numbers of salmon eggs and young fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is a devastating blow for an industry still reeling from last year’s closure. State officials estimate that last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/California-Salmon-Disaster-Request-Letter-04.06.23.pdf?emrc=872969\">closure\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/federal-assistance-for-california-salmon-fisheries-available-in-31-counties/\">cost about $45 million\u003c/a> — which the fishing industry says vastly underestimates the actual toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way to sugarcoat it, as it’s simply catastrophic,” said Scott Artis, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://goldenstatesalmon.org/mission-2/\">Golden State Salmon Association\u003c/a>, which represents the commercial and recreational fishing industry, other businesses, restaurants and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fishing industry and many thousands of salmon families and businesses eagerly waiting to get back to work are potentially facing another year in the harbor instead of putting food on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The options are likely to evolve as the Pacific Fishery Management Council continues to analyze them over the next month. Two call for significantly shortened seasons and harvest limits for both commercial and sport fishing off California this year. The third would cancel the season for the second year in a row.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The fishing industry and many thousands of salmon families and businesses eagerly waiting to get back to work are potentially facing another year in the harbor instead of putting food on the table.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Scott Artis, executive director, Golden State Salmon Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In response to poor river and ocean conditions, California stocks are forecast to have 2024 abundance levels that are well below average,” \u003ca href=\"https://fisheries.legislature.ca.gov/sites/fisheries.legislature.ca.gov/files/u8/9%20Marci%20Yaremko%20Biography.pdf\">Marci Yaremko\u003c/a>, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s appointee to the Pacific council, said Monday. “The options that have been developed that do authorize some fishing are very precautionary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvest limits and other restrictions on the number of fish caught per trip are new concepts for managing ocean salmon fisheries, Yaremko said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even the best option that they give us there is crumbs compared to a regular salmon season,” said Jared Davis, captain of the Salty Lady, a charter fishing boat.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, of all the options, he said, he’d prefer complete closure. The shortened seasons don’t offer enough days to sustain his business, and the potential repercussions aren’t worth it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think fishing on low abundance, such as we have this year, is reckless and irresponsible,” he said. “It’s really playing with fire for us to take any fish out of there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/04/close-california-salmon-season-fisherman/\">Sarah Bates\u003c/a>, who owns a commercial fishing boat berthed at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, called the decision “tragic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at numbers of fish that don’t even make it worthwhile to untie the boat,” she said. “It’s not enough fish to pay for the maintenance and preparation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-16-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jared Davis stands aboard his charter fishing boat, the Salty Lady, in Richmond on March 8, 2023. The end of the salmon season has left him struggling to make a living. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A financial nightmare — some may never fish again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>RJ Waldron, 48, put his sports fishing boat, the Sundance, up for sale in January\u003cem>.\u003c/em> When the salmon season closed last year, an estimated 85% of his business dried up. Few clients took him up on his offer to switch to halibut, striped bass or rockfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buying the boat eight years ago to run a charter fishing business out of the East Bay had been a dream come true for Waldron, a long-time fishing and hunting guide. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Basically, this last year, I’ve just been blowing through my cash, blowing through the savings, just trying to stay afloat. I put everything I had into this fishing business, into the salmon. And it’s totally out of my control. I can’t resurrect it.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"RJ Waldron","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, this last year, I’ve just been blowing through my cash, blowing through the savings, just trying to stay afloat,” Waldron said. “I put everything I had into this fishing business, into the salmon. And it’s totally out of my control. I can’t resurrect it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s commercial fleet and recreational anglers still await federal disaster aid for last year’s losses. The federal government allocated only \u003ca href=\"https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/us-department-of-commerce-allocates-over-206m-in-fishery-disaster-funding\">$20.6 million in disaster funding\u003c/a>, and a year later, none of the salmon fishers CalMatters interviewed received a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldron called the lack of disaster aid a “big slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis said he tried to weather the storm by arranging trips for halibut, striped bass, rockfish and lingcod. Still, he estimates that his business was down 80% from a normal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the season restricted this year “breaks my heart,” he said. “It’s what I love, and it’s a passion. It’s something I’ve been doing my whole life, and I know that there’s a lot of others in the industry that it’s the same for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979038\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/030823-JARED-DAVIS-MHN-CM-13-ezgif.com-webp-to-jpg-converter-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing boats at a dry dock in Richmond on March 8, 2023. Many recreational and commercial salmon fishing ventures have shut down. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salmon fishers fear the closure will drive yet more boats permanently from the fleet — already down to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/02/review-of-2023-ocean-salmon-fisheries.pdf/\">464 vessels\u003c/a> in 2022 from \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/02/review-of-2023-ocean-salmon-fisheries.pdf/#page=356\">nearly 5,000 in the early ‘80s\u003c/a>. Recreational salmon fishing trips plummeted from nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/02/review-of-2023-ocean-salmon-fisheries.pdf/\">99,000 in 2022 to zero\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates estimates that about half of the fleet took shore jobs. And some, she said, probably won’t return.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11974963,news_11954645,news_11974205","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Some people, I’m sure, will not go fishing again,” she said. “They got a job that will hold them through and their momentum will shift, and I’m sure we’re going to lose members of our fleet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make ends meet last year, Bates picked up bookkeeping work. But she doesn’t know yet what she’ll do this year. Bates’ boat is called the Bounty, a cruel irony now. Still, she said the boat has seen bad seasons before — and it’s bad luck to change a boat’s name, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tommy “TF” Graham also will keep working on land. A commercial fisherman based in Bodega Bay, he got a Class A driver’s license so he could drive a truck and stay afloat through the closures. Now, when he’s not crab fishing, Graham wakes up at 3 a.m. to drive frozen and farmed salmon and other fish from around the world into San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A guy has got to get up and put his boots on and go to work every day,” Graham said. Still, he said, “I used to be a provider; now I’m a consumer. It feels like shit, to tell you the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Drought and water diversions kill salmon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Monday’s decision follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">the release of population numbers\u003c/a> for \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/s3/2024-02/D2-FisheryStructurepresentation-for-WG-01302024.pdf\">Sacramento River fall-run Chinook\u003c/a>, which make up the greatest proportion of California and Oregon ocean salmon fisheries. Their numbers are down from an average of more than 200,000 fish that returned to spawn in the mid-2000s. And those numbers are a fraction \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233103975_Historical_Abundance_and_Decline_of_Chinook_Salmon_in_the_Central_Valley_Region_of_California\">of the historical counts\u003c/a> of between one and two million fall and spring-run salmon returning to the Central Valley every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/91bCe/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, fewer than \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">134,000 returned to\u003c/a> the Sacramento River. That’s more than double the fish that returned in 2022, which was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/03/california-salmon-fishery-shut-down/\">the third-lowest count on record\u003c/a>. But it barely cleared the federal government’s minimum conservation target of 122,000 fish and fell 19% short of the number that had been projected to return — despite the cancellation of all salmon fishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, scientists estimate that 213,606 Sacramento River fall-run salmon are swimming off the coast. It’s more than last year — more even than the upper limit of the fishery’s conservation target. However, it is still the second lowest projection in a decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">according to a guidance letter from the National Marine Fisheries Service\u003c/a>. “Caution is warranted to reduce the chances that the stock becomes overfished again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">attributed the struggling populations in part to low flows and high temperatures\u003c/a> on the Sacramento River during California’s drought in 2021, when the fish \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-5-b-supplemental-nmfs-report-1-nmfs-guidance-letter.pdf/\">returning this year\u003c/a> were spawned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the salmon industry also points to state and federal management of the Sacramento River and operations of the vast Central Valley Project, which funnels water south from Northern California’s rivers to irrigate \u003ca href=\"https://www.usbr.gov/projects/index.php?id=506\">a third of the state’s agricultural land and supply a million households\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, almost all of the endangered winter-run Chinook eggs in the Sacramento River were wiped out — \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/climate/river-temperatures-and-survival-endangered-california-winter-run-chinook-salmon\">cooked in dangerously hot water\u003c/a>. The Pacific Fishery Management Council told state and federal water managers in 2022 that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2022/09/september-2022-letter-to-nmfs-bor-and-ca-state-water-resources-control-board.pdf/\">the conditions\u003c/a> also could harm eggs of spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon. Expressing their “grave concerns,” they said “a major factor” was the “high river temperatures that were under (the U.S. Bureau of) Reclamation’s control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/aemJd/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/01/california-salmon-newsom-plan/\">Newsom administration has come under fire\u003c/a> from conservationists and the fishing industry for actions that could jeopardize salmon. These include \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/water-board-waives-environmental-rules-delta-water/\">waiving water quality requirements in the Delta\u003c/a> and backing a controversial pact with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/09/california-delta-bay-plan/\">major water suppliers related to diversions from the Bay-Delta watershed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard for me to swallow that we export all this water and have little to no regulation on the farming,” Waldron said. “We’re taking away from a resource to give to another resource. And I don’t understand how we can let that happen, especially (since) the salmon are a natural resource.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Newsom administration \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/01/california-salmon-newsom-plan/\">unveiled a plan\u003c/a> in January aimed at protecting and restoring salmon “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Perpetual situation’ for the Yurok Tribe\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Yurok Tribe in far Northern California is expecting restrictions this year as well, based on the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Klamath Tribal allocation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2024/03/agenda-item-c-9-a-supplemental-stt-report-1-salmon-technical-team-report-collation-of-preliminary-salmon-management-alternatives-for-2024-ocean-fisheries.pdf/#page=5\">roughly 6,300 to 6,600 fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A commercial fishery is completely out of the question,” Barry McCovey Jr., who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.yuroktribe.org/fisheries\">fisheries program\u003c/a> for the Yurok, the largest tribe in California with a reservation spanning \u003ca href=\"https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/dam-migration/yurok_klamath_doi_2011.pdf\">a 45-mile stretch of the lower Klamath River\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re looking at now — that’s not enough for one fish for every tribal member. It’s less than that. And a typical family could maybe use 30 or 40, or maybe even 50 fish a year.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re salmon people. That’s who we are. To have that opportunity not be there was very, very devastating on so many levels. It’s not just about food. It’s about culture.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Barry McCovey Jr., biologist, Yurok Tribe fisheries program ","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Collapsing salmon populations on the Klamath have forced the Yurok Tribe to cancel its commercial fishery every year since 2015 but one. Last year, the tribe also closed down subsistence fishing and served no Klamath River salmon at its annual salmon festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re salmon people. That’s who we are,” McCovey said. “To have that opportunity not be there was very, very devastating on so many levels. It’s not just about food. It’s about culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been going on for a long time,” he added. “It’s starting to be a perpetual situation that we’re in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said salmon are on life support, although more returned last year than since 2018, which McCovey said might be due to the canceled fisheries. He hopes that the salmon will eventually recover with the demolition of hydroelectric dams and the tribe’s restoration efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually, this is going to end. We’re going to come out of this. We’re too hard-headed to give up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979008/simply-catastrophic-california-salmon-season-to-be-restricted-or-shut-down-again","authors":["byline_news_11979008"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_2345","news_23987","news_20023","news_22588","news_3531"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11979040","label":"news_18481"},"news_11974963":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11974963","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11974963","score":null,"sort":[1707422403000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"saving-salmon-newsom-unveils-blueprint-for-ending-decades-long-decline","title":"Saving Salmon: Newsom Unveils Blueprint for Ending Decades-Long Decline","publishDate":1707422403,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Saving Salmon: Newsom Unveils Blueprint for Ending Decades-Long Decline | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With salmon populations throughout California declining for decades and \u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SOS-II-Fish-in-Hot-Water-Report.pdf\">facing the threat of extinction (PDF)\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Salmon-Strategy-for-a-Hotter-Drier-Future.pdf\">unveiled a state strategy (PDF)\u003c/a> aimed at protecting and restoring the iconic species “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blueprint calls for tearing down dams and improving passages for migrating salmon, restoring flows in key waterways, modernizing hatcheries to raise fish and taking other steps to help chinook, coho, steelhead and other migrating fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doubling down to make sure this species not only adapts in the face of extreme weather but remains a fixture of California’s natural beauty and ecosystems for generations to come,” Newsom said in \u003ca href=\"http://:%20https//www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/30/governor-newsom-launches-californias-salmon-strategy-for-a-hotter-drier-future/\">a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/91bCe/4/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=84381&inline\">80,000 Central Valley fall-run chinook salmon\u003c/a> — a mainstay of the state’s salmon fishery — returned to spawn in 2022, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. It’s a decline of nearly 40% from the previous year and the lowest since 2009. Last year, all salmon fishing was canceled in California and much of Oregon due to low numbers projected to return from the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threats to California’s salmon are many — dams that block migration, diversions that drain rivers, ocean conditions and climate change. And the effects of the decline are wide-ranging: loss of fishery jobs, impacts on tribes’ food security and cultures, no local supplies for restaurants and consumers, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘We’re doubling down to make sure this species not only adapts in the face of extreme weather but remains a fixture of California’s natural beauty and ecosystems for generations to come.’[/pullquote]Many of the projects and solutions outlined in Newsom’s report are already underway, or under the direction of the federal government, tribes and conservation groups. Included are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/\">historic demolition of four aging hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River\u003c/a> and reintroduction of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/chinook-salmon-california-mccloud-river/\">endangered Sacramento River winter-run chinook eggs\u003c/a> to the McCloud River upstream of Lake Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulatory efforts include establishing minimum flows on the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/12/klamath-basin-tribes-ranchers-water-salmon/\">fiercely contested Scott and Shasta Rivers\u003c/a> and the long-delayed and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/09/california-delta-bay-plan/\">controversial management plan for the Bay-Delta\u003c/a>, the heart of the state’s water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups called the plan a ploy to burnish Newsom’s image after taking other steps that jeopardized salmon: his waiver of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/water-board-waives-environmental-rules-delta-water/\">water quality requirements in the Delta\u003c/a> that protect salmon, his support of a controversial pact with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/09/california-delta-bay-plan/\">major water suppliers\u003c/a>, and his backing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-water-delta-tunnel/\">of the Delta tunnel project\u003c/a>, which the state’s environmental assessment warned \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/07/delta-tunnel-water-report/\">could put salmon at risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Artis, executive director of the Golden State Salmon Association, said in a statement that the plan is “packed full of good stuff that we have been fighting to get for years,” but said, “It conflicts with what the Newsom administration has been doing for years to devastate California’s most important salmon runs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially boils down to is conveniently timed smoke and mirrors,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Three fish freshly caught.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly caught salmon from the San Francisco Bay Area on Aug. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Andrew Bland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plan “is a repackaging of victories by tribes and environmental and fishing organizations across the state, which were hard-fought and which happened to fall on Governor Newsom’s watch,” said Jon Rosenfield, science director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has spent his entire administration resisting new protections for salmon, waiving existing protections, making sure his water board didn’t adopt new regulatory safeguards that everyone agrees are necessary,” he said. “And now, in the sixth year of his administration, he’s got a plan, which doesn’t include any of the fixes that the best available science says are necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, he said the state should stop promoting major water diversions like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-water-delta-tunnel/\">the Delta tunnel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> and instead reduce demand for water, particularly among growers. He also raised concerns that the administration has backed voluntary agreements with major water suppliers related to Bay-Delta flows that could undermine and supplant science-based, mandatory standards developed by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11954645,news_11957340,news_11974205\"]Though Newsom’s strategy pledges to complete these long-awaited standards for the Bay-Delta by the end of 2025, it also says they “could include potential Voluntary Agreements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-01/epa-comments-on-sept-2023-ca-swrcb-sac-delta-draft-staff-report-2024-01-19.pdf\">has said these agreements (PDF)\u003c/a> “do not provide flow to ensure year-round protection or protection in critical dry years” and that the flows are “not large enough to adequately restore and protect aquatic ecosystems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Trout, a conservation organization, welcomed Newsom’s support for habitat restoration and demolishing barriers \u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/campaigns/eel-river-dams\">like the Scott and Cape Horn dams,\u003c/a> which block fish migration on the Eel River. PG&E released its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pottervalleysurrenderproceeding.com/\">preliminary plans for removing these dams in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions are critical and urgent in light of climate change,” Darren Mierau, CalTrout program director in the North Coast region, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SOS-II-Fish-in-Hot-Water-Report.pdf\">California Trout and UC Davis scientists predict that the state (PDF)\u003c/a> will lose nearly \u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/sos/native-species\">half of its native salmon and trout species\u003c/a> in the next 50 years if conditions continue unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After 10 years of rapidly intensifying drought with episodic bouts of rain and snow events, salmon are not doing well,” Newsom’s salmon plan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s strategy document comes with the heavy caveat that “it will require time, effort, and funding” and that the pace “will depend upon the feasibility and availability of resources and competing priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-salmon-habitat-lost-dams.netlify.app/?initialWidth=780&childId=pymTarget&parentTitle=Newsom%20unveils%20blueprint%20for%20ending%20decades-long%20salmon%20decline-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fenvironment%2F2024%2F01%2Fcalifornia-salmon-newsom-plan%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy takes aim at the many dams, large and small, that choke off nearly 90% of spawning and rearing habitat in cool mountain streams. It lists efforts underway to demolish dams on the Eel River that impound water in Lake and Mendocino counties and impede Southern California steelhead, an endangered species, in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Several projects would remove or reduce barriers on the Feather River, including upgrades to parts of the Oroville-Thermalito complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/chinook-salmon-california-mccloud-river/\">Also included are projects to reintroduce salmon in rivers across the state, such as an effort already begun on the McCloud River, where chinook salmon haven’t spawned for over 80 years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide-ranging strategy also calls for improving hatcheries that raise fish to introduce into the wild and updating data collection about stream flows, temperature and salmon migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future of California salmon is up to us all,” the plan concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Newsom’s plan includes dam removals and restoring river flows to save chinook and other salmon runs that are collapsing, but conservation groups call it too little, too late.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707347837,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/91bCe/4/","https://calmatters-salmon-habitat-lost-dams.netlify.app/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1163},"headData":{"title":"Saving Salmon: Newsom Unveils Blueprint for Ending Decades-Long Decline | KQED","description":"Newsom’s plan includes dam removals and restoring river flows to save chinook and other salmon runs that are collapsing, but conservation groups call it too little, too late.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Saving Salmon: Newsom Unveils Blueprint for Ending Decades-Long Decline","datePublished":"2024-02-08T20:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-07T23:17:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rachel-becker/\">Rachel Becker\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11974963/saving-salmon-newsom-unveils-blueprint-for-ending-decades-long-decline","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With salmon populations throughout California declining for decades and \u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SOS-II-Fish-in-Hot-Water-Report.pdf\">facing the threat of extinction (PDF)\u003c/a>, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Salmon-Strategy-for-a-Hotter-Drier-Future.pdf\">unveiled a state strategy (PDF)\u003c/a> aimed at protecting and restoring the iconic species “amidst hotter and drier weather exacerbated by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blueprint calls for tearing down dams and improving passages for migrating salmon, restoring flows in key waterways, modernizing hatcheries to raise fish and taking other steps to help chinook, coho, steelhead and other migrating fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doubling down to make sure this species not only adapts in the face of extreme weather but remains a fixture of California’s natural beauty and ecosystems for generations to come,” Newsom said in \u003ca href=\"http://:%20https//www.gov.ca.gov/2024/01/30/governor-newsom-launches-californias-salmon-strategy-for-a-hotter-drier-future/\">a statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/91bCe/4/\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=84381&inline\">80,000 Central Valley fall-run chinook salmon\u003c/a> — a mainstay of the state’s salmon fishery — returned to spawn in 2022, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. It’s a decline of nearly 40% from the previous year and the lowest since 2009. Last year, all salmon fishing was canceled in California and much of Oregon due to low numbers projected to return from the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threats to California’s salmon are many — dams that block migration, diversions that drain rivers, ocean conditions and climate change. And the effects of the decline are wide-ranging: loss of fishery jobs, impacts on tribes’ food security and cultures, no local supplies for restaurants and consumers, and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re doubling down to make sure this species not only adapts in the face of extreme weather but remains a fixture of California’s natural beauty and ecosystems for generations to come.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Gov. 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Included are the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/08/klamath-river-dams-demolition/\">historic demolition of four aging hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River\u003c/a> and reintroduction of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/chinook-salmon-california-mccloud-river/\">endangered Sacramento River winter-run chinook eggs\u003c/a> to the McCloud River upstream of Lake Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulatory efforts include establishing minimum flows on the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/12/klamath-basin-tribes-ranchers-water-salmon/\">fiercely contested Scott and Shasta Rivers\u003c/a> and the long-delayed and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/09/california-delta-bay-plan/\">controversial management plan for the Bay-Delta\u003c/a>, the heart of the state’s water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental groups called the plan a ploy to burnish Newsom’s image after taking other steps that jeopardized salmon: his waiver of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/water-board-waives-environmental-rules-delta-water/\">water quality requirements in the Delta\u003c/a> that protect salmon, his support of a controversial pact with \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/09/california-delta-bay-plan/\">major water suppliers\u003c/a>, and his backing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-water-delta-tunnel/\">of the Delta tunnel project\u003c/a>, which the state’s environmental assessment warned \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/07/delta-tunnel-water-report/\">could put salmon at risk\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Artis, executive director of the Golden State Salmon Association, said in a statement that the plan is “packed full of good stuff that we have been fighting to get for years,” but said, “It conflicts with what the Newsom administration has been doing for years to devastate California’s most important salmon runs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially boils down to is conveniently timed smoke and mirrors,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Three fish freshly caught.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/082217-Salmon-Fishing-CM-01-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly caught salmon from the San Francisco Bay Area on Aug. 22, 2017. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Andrew Bland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The plan “is a repackaging of victories by tribes and environmental and fishing organizations across the state, which were hard-fought and which happened to fall on Governor Newsom’s watch,” said Jon Rosenfield, science director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The governor has spent his entire administration resisting new protections for salmon, waiving existing protections, making sure his water board didn’t adopt new regulatory safeguards that everyone agrees are necessary,” he said. “And now, in the sixth year of his administration, he’s got a plan, which doesn’t include any of the fixes that the best available science says are necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, he said the state should stop promoting major water diversions like \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/06/california-water-delta-tunnel/\">the Delta tunnel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/02/california-sites-reservoir/\">Sites Reservoir\u003c/a> and instead reduce demand for water, particularly among growers. He also raised concerns that the administration has backed voluntary agreements with major water suppliers related to Bay-Delta flows that could undermine and supplant science-based, mandatory standards developed by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11954645,news_11957340,news_11974205"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Though Newsom’s strategy pledges to complete these long-awaited standards for the Bay-Delta by the end of 2025, it also says they “could include potential Voluntary Agreements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-01/epa-comments-on-sept-2023-ca-swrcb-sac-delta-draft-staff-report-2024-01-19.pdf\">has said these agreements (PDF)\u003c/a> “do not provide flow to ensure year-round protection or protection in critical dry years” and that the flows are “not large enough to adequately restore and protect aquatic ecosystems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Trout, a conservation organization, welcomed Newsom’s support for habitat restoration and demolishing barriers \u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/campaigns/eel-river-dams\">like the Scott and Cape Horn dams,\u003c/a> which block fish migration on the Eel River. PG&E released its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pottervalleysurrenderproceeding.com/\">preliminary plans for removing these dams in November\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These actions are critical and urgent in light of climate change,” Darren Mierau, CalTrout program director in the North Coast region, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SOS-II-Fish-in-Hot-Water-Report.pdf\">California Trout and UC Davis scientists predict that the state (PDF)\u003c/a> will lose nearly \u003ca href=\"https://caltrout.org/sos/native-species\">half of its native salmon and trout species\u003c/a> in the next 50 years if conditions continue unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After 10 years of rapidly intensifying drought with episodic bouts of rain and snow events, salmon are not doing well,” Newsom’s salmon plan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s strategy document comes with the heavy caveat that “it will require time, effort, and funding” and that the pace “will depend upon the feasibility and availability of resources and competing priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://calmatters-salmon-habitat-lost-dams.netlify.app/?initialWidth=780&childId=pymTarget&parentTitle=Newsom%20unveils%20blueprint%20for%20ending%20decades-long%20salmon%20decline-%20CalMatters&parentUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fcalmatters.org%2Fenvironment%2F2024%2F01%2Fcalifornia-salmon-newsom-plan%2F\" width=\"800\" height=\"850\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strategy takes aim at the many dams, large and small, that choke off nearly 90% of spawning and rearing habitat in cool mountain streams. It lists efforts underway to demolish dams on the Eel River that impound water in Lake and Mendocino counties and impede Southern California steelhead, an endangered species, in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Several projects would remove or reduce barriers on the Feather River, including upgrades to parts of the Oroville-Thermalito complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/12/chinook-salmon-california-mccloud-river/\">Also included are projects to reintroduce salmon in rivers across the state, such as an effort already begun on the McCloud River, where chinook salmon haven’t spawned for over 80 years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wide-ranging strategy also calls for improving hatcheries that raise fish to introduce into the wild and updating data collection about stream flows, temperature and salmon migration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future of California salmon is up to us all,” the plan concludes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11974963/saving-salmon-newsom-unveils-blueprint-for-ending-decades-long-decline","authors":["byline_news_11974963"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18538","news_21074","news_27626","news_32571","news_3531"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11974964","label":"news_18481"},"news_11974205":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11974205","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11974205","score":null,"sort":[1706644814000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-backs-dam-removal-projects-to-protect-salmon-in-california-rivers","title":"Newsom Backs Dam Removal Projects to Protect Salmon in California Rivers","publishDate":1706644814,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom Backs Dam Removal Projects to Protect Salmon in California Rivers | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that sustains both economies and spiritual beliefs for tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom — now in his second term and seen as a potential Democratic presidential candidate beyond 2024 — has worked hard to stake a claim as the nation’s most environmentally-conscious governor. But his record has been dogged by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-gavin-newsom-california-business-climate-and-environment-2863facfcd6d308f8eb178ec55aaa8dc\">criticism from environmental groups\u003c/a> who say his water policies benefit big agriculture at the expense of salmon and other species of fish in danger of becoming extinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jon Rosenfield, science director, San Francisco Baykeeper\"]‘Without the essential ingredient of a river, which is the flow of water, fish … are not going to survive.’[/pullquote]Millions of salmon once filled California’s rivers and streams each year, bringing with them key nutrients from the ocean that gave the state an abundance of natural resources that were so important to indigenous peoples that they formed the foundation of creation stories central to tribes’ way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, so few salmon were in the state’s rivers that the officials \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/salmon-fishing-ban-chinook-west-coast-fd818fb1489834d5f8f9371818178b11\">closed the commercial fishing season\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by the criticism leveled against him and his administration, Newsom on Tuesday released a plan outlining his strategy to protect salmon — a plan that includes a heavy helping of projects that would remove or bypass aging dams that prevent them from returning to the streams of their birth to lay eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are tangible. And so much of the work we do is, you know, you can’t see it, you can’t feel it,” Newsom told\u003cem> The Associated Press\u003c/em> in an interview near the banks of the Elk River in Eureka near a recently completed project that returned some agricultural land to a flood plain habitat for salmon. “But when you see a dam being removed and you come back a few months later — a year or two, five years later — and you see real progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11969648,news_11954645,science_1983312\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Newsom’s salmon strategy includes a promise to complete an agreement by the end of the year to remove the Scott Dam and replace the Cape Horn Dam along the Eel River that have blocked salmon access to 288 miles of habitat. Once completed, the Eel would be the longest free-flowing river in the state, flowing north through the Coast Ranges before emptying into the Pacific Ocean near the town of Fortuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By next summer, Newsom said he would complete plans to remove the nearly 100-year-old Rindge Dam along Malibu Creek in western Los Angeles County that would give steelhead another 15 miles of spawning and rearing habitat. And by 2026 — the last year of Newsom’s term — he promised to complete the infrastructure necessary to remove the Matilija Dam in Ventura County along a tributary of the Ventura River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These projects have already been announced and are in the early stages of development. Newsom’s plan, however, puts on record his goal to either complete them or have them approved by state regulatory bodies before he leaves office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got three more years. And I want to put it all out there,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s embrace of some dam demolitions comes as the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-california-removal-restoration-473a570024584c2e02837434e05693da\">largest dam removal project in U.S. history\u003c/a> got underway in earnest last week when crews blew a hole in the bottom of the Copco No. 1 dam along the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border. It’s one of four dams set to be removed along the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to demolishing dams, Newsom is trying to bring attention to some of the $800 million he has signed off on in recent years for projects that return some creeks and streams to their natural state so that salmon can live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday, Newsom trudged through thick mud to visit a project along Prairie Creek in Redwoods National Park. The creek had been converted to a ditch, with steep rock walls preventing the water from spilling into a flood plain where baby salmon could eat and grow before heading out to the ocean. The goal is to get the baby fish to stay longer in this creek so they can grow larger before heading out to the ocean — making it more likely they will return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom watched as Kate Stonecypher, a graduate student at Cal Poly Humboldt, pulled juvenile coho salmon and steelhead trout from the river that had been tagged with a tracking device. Researchers are still studying the results. But early indications have been positive. Fish from the creek were later found to travel 50 miles to Humboldt Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest criticism of Newsom’s environmental policies has not been a lack of restoration projects but a lack of water in the rivers. Newsom’s salmon strategy includes a controversial proposal to seek \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-california-sacramento-north-america-d11f6781a9f664b0049db953b8d2a005\">voluntary agreements\u003c/a> with major farmers over how much water they can take out of the rivers and streams. Some environmental groups, including the San Francisco Baykeeper, have called this plan “astonishingly weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Baykeeper Science Director Jon Rosenfield said California has already done lots of habitat restoration projects but has failed to boost salmon populations significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the essential ingredient of a river, which is the flow of water, fish … are not going to survive,” he said. “The governor is out there promising actions that are not adequate to restore the population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pledged to continue to work with native tribes, who often refer to the rivers where salmon live as their church. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-native-americans-982b507a846a4ad6bc184b3e7f99ec70\">formally apologized\u003c/a> to Native American tribes four years ago for how the state had treated them historically. And he has committed to partnering with them to conduct much of the work around salmon habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday, Frankie Myers, vice chair of the Yurok Tribe, told Newsom the tribe’s work on Prairie Creek had changed the community by restoring the tribe’s purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This goes beyond that apology. This is about restoration,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The governor backed proposals to remove or bypass seven barriers to salmon in the state's rivers. The plan comes as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway along the California and Oregon border.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706654162,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1081},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Backs Dam Removal Projects to Protect Salmon in California Rivers | KQED","description":"The governor backed proposals to remove or bypass seven barriers to salmon in the state's rivers. The plan comes as the largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway along the California and Oregon border.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom Backs Dam Removal Projects to Protect Salmon in California Rivers","datePublished":"2024-01-30T20:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-30T22:36:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Adam Beam\u003cbr>The Associated Press\u003c/br>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11974205/newsom-backs-dam-removal-projects-to-protect-salmon-in-california-rivers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that sustains both economies and spiritual beliefs for tribes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom — now in his second term and seen as a potential Democratic presidential candidate beyond 2024 — has worked hard to stake a claim as the nation’s most environmentally-conscious governor. But his record has been dogged by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-gavin-newsom-california-business-climate-and-environment-2863facfcd6d308f8eb178ec55aaa8dc\">criticism from environmental groups\u003c/a> who say his water policies benefit big agriculture at the expense of salmon and other species of fish in danger of becoming extinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Without the essential ingredient of a river, which is the flow of water, fish … are not going to survive.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jon Rosenfield, science director, San Francisco Baykeeper","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Millions of salmon once filled California’s rivers and streams each year, bringing with them key nutrients from the ocean that gave the state an abundance of natural resources that were so important to indigenous peoples that they formed the foundation of creation stories central to tribes’ way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, so few salmon were in the state’s rivers that the officials \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/salmon-fishing-ban-chinook-west-coast-fd818fb1489834d5f8f9371818178b11\">closed the commercial fishing season\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated by the criticism leveled against him and his administration, Newsom on Tuesday released a plan outlining his strategy to protect salmon — a plan that includes a heavy helping of projects that would remove or bypass aging dams that prevent them from returning to the streams of their birth to lay eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are tangible. And so much of the work we do is, you know, you can’t see it, you can’t feel it,” Newsom told\u003cem> The Associated Press\u003c/em> in an interview near the banks of the Elk River in Eureka near a recently completed project that returned some agricultural land to a flood plain habitat for salmon. “But when you see a dam being removed and you come back a few months later — a year or two, five years later — and you see real progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11969648,news_11954645,science_1983312","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom’s salmon strategy includes a promise to complete an agreement by the end of the year to remove the Scott Dam and replace the Cape Horn Dam along the Eel River that have blocked salmon access to 288 miles of habitat. Once completed, the Eel would be the longest free-flowing river in the state, flowing north through the Coast Ranges before emptying into the Pacific Ocean near the town of Fortuna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By next summer, Newsom said he would complete plans to remove the nearly 100-year-old Rindge Dam along Malibu Creek in western Los Angeles County that would give steelhead another 15 miles of spawning and rearing habitat. And by 2026 — the last year of Newsom’s term — he promised to complete the infrastructure necessary to remove the Matilija Dam in Ventura County along a tributary of the Ventura River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These projects have already been announced and are in the early stages of development. Newsom’s plan, however, puts on record his goal to either complete them or have them approved by state regulatory bodies before he leaves office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got three more years. And I want to put it all out there,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s embrace of some dam demolitions comes as the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dam-california-removal-restoration-473a570024584c2e02837434e05693da\">largest dam removal project in U.S. history\u003c/a> got underway in earnest last week when crews blew a hole in the bottom of the Copco No. 1 dam along the Klamath River near the California-Oregon border. It’s one of four dams set to be removed along the Klamath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to demolishing dams, Newsom is trying to bring attention to some of the $800 million he has signed off on in recent years for projects that return some creeks and streams to their natural state so that salmon can live there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday, Newsom trudged through thick mud to visit a project along Prairie Creek in Redwoods National Park. The creek had been converted to a ditch, with steep rock walls preventing the water from spilling into a flood plain where baby salmon could eat and grow before heading out to the ocean. The goal is to get the baby fish to stay longer in this creek so they can grow larger before heading out to the ocean — making it more likely they will return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom watched as Kate Stonecypher, a graduate student at Cal Poly Humboldt, pulled juvenile coho salmon and steelhead trout from the river that had been tagged with a tracking device. Researchers are still studying the results. But early indications have been positive. Fish from the creek were later found to travel 50 miles to Humboldt Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the biggest criticism of Newsom’s environmental policies has not been a lack of restoration projects but a lack of water in the rivers. Newsom’s salmon strategy includes a controversial proposal to seek \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-california-sacramento-north-america-d11f6781a9f664b0049db953b8d2a005\">voluntary agreements\u003c/a> with major farmers over how much water they can take out of the rivers and streams. Some environmental groups, including the San Francisco Baykeeper, have called this plan “astonishingly weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Baykeeper Science Director Jon Rosenfield said California has already done lots of habitat restoration projects but has failed to boost salmon populations significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without the essential ingredient of a river, which is the flow of water, fish … are not going to survive,” he said. “The governor is out there promising actions that are not adequate to restore the population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pledged to continue to work with native tribes, who often refer to the rivers where salmon live as their church. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-native-americans-982b507a846a4ad6bc184b3e7f99ec70\">formally apologized\u003c/a> to Native American tribes four years ago for how the state had treated them historically. And he has committed to partnering with them to conduct much of the work around salmon habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday, Frankie Myers, vice chair of the Yurok Tribe, told Newsom the tribe’s work on Prairie Creek had changed the community by restoring the tribe’s purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This goes beyond that apology. This is about restoration,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11974205/newsom-backs-dam-removal-projects-to-protect-salmon-in-california-rivers","authors":["byline_news_11974205"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_20599","news_3531"],"featImg":"news_11974217","label":"news"},"news_11957340":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957340","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957340","score":null,"sort":[1691143212000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-californias-salmon-season-was-canceled","title":"Why California’s Salmon Season Was Canceled","publishDate":1691143212,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Why California’s Salmon Season Was Canceled | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the first time since 2009, there is no salmon fishing season in California. This decision has hit fishers, coastal towns, and Native communities hard. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it also wasn’t inevitable. KQED climate and science reporter Danielle Venton explains how the state’s choices around water management played a major role.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1724950656&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local News to keep you rooted. Something is missing from the ocean this summer as a result of declining populations. Fisheries regulators have made a drastic decision to cancel salmon fishing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Bates: \u003c/strong>There’s a huge, conspicuous absence not only on the barbecue. There’s an absence in my fish hold. There’s an absence on the docks in San Francisco. There’s an absence in our markets, because there’s no fish in the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Commercial fishers who rely on the salmon to make their living are struggling to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>John McManus: \u003c/strong>Some people will be able to make a little bit of money targeting other species, but they’re going to lose a significant portion of their annual income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And it’s not just commercial fishers who are feeling this. It’s the entire ecosystem of the state and California’s native tribes who’ve relied on the health of the salmon for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>We believe as Hupa peopl, that our social well-being and our physical our cultural, our spiritual well-being, it all runs parallel to the salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, we’re going to talk with KQED reporter Danielle Vinton about what happened to the salmon and how decisions by the state helped bring us here. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I come from a family of fisher folk. I think I knew how to Filet-O-Fish before I knew how to ride a bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Danielle Venton is a science and climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>My dad was a big recreational fisherman and even tried commercial fishing for one year. When my cousin got married for the dinner, my dad and uncle and cousins would just go out day after day, catching their limit until we had enough salmon to barbecue for 200 people. You know, it’s a really cool kind of local thing, like a really cool thing to do, but that wouldn’t be possible this year. Obviously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Let’s dive into it, Danielle. What exactly, I guess, is the state of the salmon season this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Well, unfortunately, there is no salmon season. Usually the commercial season runs from May to October, so we should be right in the middle of it. Recreational season starts a little earlier than that and both are closed this year. There is no locally fresh caught salmon to be had. This is an industry that is valued at around $500 million. It’s also restaurants, tackle shops, private fishing guides, campgrounds. You know, there’s this whole tourism industry that is centered around California’s salmon season, and that’s dried up this year. The rules for tribal people are different because they’re different nations. So there is some tribal take allowed in rivers, but they are very much affected when salmon numbers are in decline. This is very abnormal. And the last time something like this happened was in 2008 and nine, and I don’t believe it had ever happened before that. Part of that reason is that we have rules and policies that are supposed to prevent exactly this kind of thing. I mean, this is a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, before we get into the policy stuff, I want to understand the basics when it comes to salmon. How would you describe the life cycle of these fish? Like what is supposed to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Salmon are these strange kind of semi magical creatures. Salman are born in natal rivers and streams and in nests called reds. They hatch and they begin migrating downstream, even though they’ve been spent their entire life in a freshwater habitat. They’re able to change and live in a saltwater habitat. And they feed out in the ocean and fatten up their food for whales and all of us. And then they reach maturity and they feel the call of home and they return to the same rivers and streams that they were born in. Swim back up there and they spawn. The female like wiggles around in the gravel, builds a nest, lays her eggs. Male fish fertilize them, and then their bodies give out and they then feed their natural surroundings. You know, this is very important way where nutrients get transferred from the ocean back up into the streams. These are fish that kind of define an ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And here’s where humans come in. We decide how much water from our dams should go to the rivers where the seminar versus to irrigators like farms and agriculture. So what happened this time? Well, it starts a few years ago during a bad drought year when salmon didn’t get the water they needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>The fish that should be in the ocean right now waiting to be caught in on our dinner plate were born in their birth streams back in the fall of 2020. 2020 was a drought year. 2019 was a really wet year. And so water managers had delivered a lot of water to irrigators in 2019. They didn’t save it in reservoirs and as we went into 2020, there wasn’t a lot of water in the dams. There was a case of kind of climate whiplash and that water is needed to be released into the river to maintain kind of minimum flows like the amount of water that’s flowing down and to maintain temperatures. These fish like cool, clean flowing water. And so as we went into 2020, there wasn’t a lot of water to be released into these dams and some of the nests and that were born that year. They dried up and a lot of the fish that were born kind of cooked to death because conditions were just so warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s a chilling, chilling image, like these eggs being cooked. Was this inevitable? I mean, climate change is happening, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So climate change is definitely happening and puts more stress on the rivers. But also, California has made a lot of policy decisions that pushed us in this direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jon Rosenfield \u003c/strong>Yeah, it’s inextricably linked to state and federal water policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So, someone who pays really close attention to this is Jon Rosenfield, and he’s the senior scientist with the San Francisco Baykeeper. He points to inaction on part of the state as leading to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jon Rosenfield \u003c/strong>We have increasingly good scientific evidence that that journey, the success of that journey, is really dependent on the flow and in rivers when the fish are trying to migrate. The lower the flow, the less they survive. And that flow in the rivers is also determined by state and federal water management policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So in California, we have these kind of sets of rules that govern how water should work in the state. And what is supposed to happen is that they are meant to be reevaluated and updated if needed every three years. In reality, the plan controlling what happens in the Sacramento Delta. It dates from 1995. It’s been updated here and there, but it is really awaiting a big overhaul. In 2018, the Jerry Brown administration tried to update part of those rules. He allowed his water agency to kind of take, you know, exert some control in this area. They were coming up with a new plan to increase the flows and to really improve conditions in those rivers. It was going to mean less water for irrigators. Irrigators were really upset. But it was seen as a plan that was very effective for improving ecosystem health and, you know, advocating on behalf of the fish and on behalf of communities that live along these rivers that kind of want to enjoy clean, flowing water. But 2018 was also the year that Governor Newsom was elected. And before they could go into effect, he basically put a chill on that and said, we’re just going to pause and we’re not going to do that right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jon Rosenfield \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom and throughout his administration, starting on election night, has actively blocked update of those water quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has governor, after governor failed to update these rules, which seem really important, especially when water just increasingly seems to be this sort of like finite resource and is we have to make decisions about where that water goes, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I mean, this is not a politically winning issue. It’s very difficult. You have different sides that have different values. It’s a hard it’s a hard issue. I mean, people talk about, you know, these California water wars. This is something that’s been going on for decades and it’s still going on. And, you know, to some people’s mind, they just don’t feel winnable. I mean, agriculture is a very big political player in our state, and a lot of money can be made in agriculture. They have very old claims on water and there is a lot of political power behind, you know, big agribusiness interests. And Governor, after governor and you know, many people believe Newsom in particular is very loathe to do anything to upset them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom has gotten a lot of heat for this. How has he responded to allegations that their policy decisions are to blame for what’s happened to the salmon this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom has pushed away the idea of any responsibility for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>I take this issue seriously. I’ll take a backseat to no governor in the United States of America in terms of my environmental stewardship and passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>He was asked about this at a press conference this spring. And, you know, his response was pretty striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>What what occurs? The salmon that happened three years ago. So anyone who suggests otherwise is being purposely misleading or a knowingly misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I basically I couldn’t possibly have had any effect on that. You know, and he he has been governor for four and a half years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It seems like everyone affected agrees that something went wrong. And the governor clearly thinks he has nothing to do with it. But, I mean, going back to these rules, Danielle, they haven’t been updated in decades. So what is the state’s vision here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So the state has put its emphasis behind what are called voluntary agreements, and these are non regulatory frameworks. The state says that these are voluntary agreements are a better approach because if everyone can kind of get the part that they really care about, then maybe we can avoid lawsuits. That’s part of why these plans are so hard to update because they are tied up in litigation for years and years and years and years. Tribes and conservation groups and environmental justice groups say that these agreements are completely unacceptable because they cut them out of the decision making process when the real important decisions are being made and that the state has only asked for feedback on their voluntary agreements after, you know, they were largely hashed out. And they say that’s totally unacceptable. And the big emphasis of these voluntary agreements are restoring habitat, which is great, but it seems a big emphasis of these agreements is not putting more water in the rivers and allowing more water to flow. And, you know, fish can have all the habitat they want, but if there’s not water in the river, they’re not going to make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It sounds like you’re saying it’s just kind of impossible at this point to really think that we can satisfy everyone when it comes to water, when there isn’t enough of it, and someone has to make that hard decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Yeah, but I would say like there is definitely enough water for everyone to have drinking water for everyone to wash their dishes and have showers and stuff. I mean, the point where this gets really difficult is like, can we grow hundreds of thousands of acres of nut trees that are exported around the world and that are extremely profitable and are extremely thirsty crops? We’re not talking about subsistence agriculture here. We’re not talking about growing the food that we’re going to survive on. You know, to hear some people at the state level talk, you would think that like if we all just sit together at the same table and put our heads together and hash it out, we can come up with some compromise where everyone can get their needs and wants met. And I’m not sure that that’s realistic, especially in difficult dry years if salmon are going to get the amount of water that they need to support them. We are not also going to be able to support the number of acres that are currently planted. Something is going to give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, what’s next here, Danielle? Like, what are these communities, these fissures, these tribes? What are they pushing for now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>They’re pushing for the state to take more action. They’re pushing for a seat at the table. I recently attended a rally in Sacramento on the Capitol steps where, you know, this broad coalition came together to try to get the attention of lawmakers. There’s also a group that feels so neglected by the state that they are petitioning the Environmental Protection Agents Agency, a federal agency, to step in and enforce the Clean Water Act. They say that’s how dire it is and that the state is not taking care of their needs and that that is a violation of their civil rights. And the last I heard, the EPA was kind of looking at this issue and deciding if they had the authority to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>And if the salmon aren’t doing good, we’re not doing good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So I spoke with a man, Jason Jackson-Reed, who’s a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>Our physical, our cultural, our spiritual well-being, it all runs parallel to the salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>And he was there at the rally with his one year, one month old son cradled in a carrier, very much thinking about the next generation. He said that this story is not going to change until native people start having a role in making management decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>It’s not going to change until, you know, the natives start writing the narrative and we start reading, digitizing, you know, a management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’ve been talking about salmon. And I think it’s fair to say that most people interact with salmon when they eat it. But beyond that, why should we all have a stake in having a healthy salmon season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>When salmon are doing well, the environment is doing well, and that’s an environment that supports us all and that we all enjoy. It is part of the natural heritage of the state. And supporting salmon also supports the native people who were the original caretakers of this land. A lot of people talk about this issue in these very simple terms, this very simple dichotomy of fish versus farms. And of course, we support farms and we need food. But salmon are also food, and a healthy salmon run means a healthy environment. Salmon. And to simplify it. Almond trees are not equivalent species. You know, one is integral to California environment, the people of California. And one is an export crop that is profitable and that is optional to grow. Each of us can decide where our values lie within that. But, you know, for thinking about the long term future, our life is getting better. Our children’s life is going to be better if we do take care of rivers and streams and the health of our salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Danielle, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much for having me, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom has requested federal disaster relief money for commercial fishers impacted by the canceled salmon season. Danielle says that money is believed to be on its way, but it’s not here yet. Meanwhile, Danielle says fishers that she’s spoken with have told her they’d much rather fish than have to rely on these funds. That was Danielle Venton, a science and climate reporter for KQED. At the top of this episode, you also heard from Sarah Bates, a commercial fisher. John McManus with the Golden State Salmon Association. And Jason Jackson Reed, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. This 45-minute conversation with Danielle was cut down and edited by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. The rest of our team here at KQED includes Jen Chien. Our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager. César Saldaña, our podcast engagement producer. And Holly Kernan, our chief content officer. The Bay is a production of a member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara. Thank you so much for listening. From all of us here at The Bay, Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700689223,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":3146},"headData":{"title":"Why California’s Salmon Season Was Canceled | KQED","description":"View the full episode transcript. 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This decision has hit fishers, coastal towns, and Native communities hard. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But it also wasn’t inevitable. KQED climate and science reporter Danielle Venton explains how the state’s choices around water management played a major role.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1724950656&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to The Bay. Local News to keep you rooted. Something is missing from the ocean this summer as a result of declining populations. Fisheries regulators have made a drastic decision to cancel salmon fishing season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Bates: \u003c/strong>There’s a huge, conspicuous absence not only on the barbecue. There’s an absence in my fish hold. There’s an absence on the docks in San Francisco. There’s an absence in our markets, because there’s no fish in the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Commercial fishers who rely on the salmon to make their living are struggling to get by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>John McManus: \u003c/strong>Some people will be able to make a little bit of money targeting other species, but they’re going to lose a significant portion of their annual income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And it’s not just commercial fishers who are feeling this. It’s the entire ecosystem of the state and California’s native tribes who’ve relied on the health of the salmon for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>We believe as Hupa peopl, that our social well-being and our physical our cultural, our spiritual well-being, it all runs parallel to the salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, we’re going to talk with KQED reporter Danielle Vinton about what happened to the salmon and how decisions by the state helped bring us here. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I come from a family of fisher folk. I think I knew how to Filet-O-Fish before I knew how to ride a bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Danielle Venton is a science and climate reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>My dad was a big recreational fisherman and even tried commercial fishing for one year. When my cousin got married for the dinner, my dad and uncle and cousins would just go out day after day, catching their limit until we had enough salmon to barbecue for 200 people. You know, it’s a really cool kind of local thing, like a really cool thing to do, but that wouldn’t be possible this year. Obviously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Let’s dive into it, Danielle. What exactly, I guess, is the state of the salmon season this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Well, unfortunately, there is no salmon season. Usually the commercial season runs from May to October, so we should be right in the middle of it. Recreational season starts a little earlier than that and both are closed this year. There is no locally fresh caught salmon to be had. This is an industry that is valued at around $500 million. It’s also restaurants, tackle shops, private fishing guides, campgrounds. You know, there’s this whole tourism industry that is centered around California’s salmon season, and that’s dried up this year. The rules for tribal people are different because they’re different nations. So there is some tribal take allowed in rivers, but they are very much affected when salmon numbers are in decline. This is very abnormal. And the last time something like this happened was in 2008 and nine, and I don’t believe it had ever happened before that. Part of that reason is that we have rules and policies that are supposed to prevent exactly this kind of thing. I mean, this is a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, before we get into the policy stuff, I want to understand the basics when it comes to salmon. How would you describe the life cycle of these fish? Like what is supposed to happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Salmon are these strange kind of semi magical creatures. Salman are born in natal rivers and streams and in nests called reds. They hatch and they begin migrating downstream, even though they’ve been spent their entire life in a freshwater habitat. They’re able to change and live in a saltwater habitat. And they feed out in the ocean and fatten up their food for whales and all of us. And then they reach maturity and they feel the call of home and they return to the same rivers and streams that they were born in. Swim back up there and they spawn. The female like wiggles around in the gravel, builds a nest, lays her eggs. Male fish fertilize them, and then their bodies give out and they then feed their natural surroundings. You know, this is very important way where nutrients get transferred from the ocean back up into the streams. These are fish that kind of define an ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And here’s where humans come in. We decide how much water from our dams should go to the rivers where the seminar versus to irrigators like farms and agriculture. So what happened this time? Well, it starts a few years ago during a bad drought year when salmon didn’t get the water they needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>The fish that should be in the ocean right now waiting to be caught in on our dinner plate were born in their birth streams back in the fall of 2020. 2020 was a drought year. 2019 was a really wet year. And so water managers had delivered a lot of water to irrigators in 2019. They didn’t save it in reservoirs and as we went into 2020, there wasn’t a lot of water in the dams. There was a case of kind of climate whiplash and that water is needed to be released into the river to maintain kind of minimum flows like the amount of water that’s flowing down and to maintain temperatures. These fish like cool, clean flowing water. And so as we went into 2020, there wasn’t a lot of water to be released into these dams and some of the nests and that were born that year. They dried up and a lot of the fish that were born kind of cooked to death because conditions were just so warm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s a chilling, chilling image, like these eggs being cooked. Was this inevitable? I mean, climate change is happening, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So climate change is definitely happening and puts more stress on the rivers. But also, California has made a lot of policy decisions that pushed us in this direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jon Rosenfield \u003c/strong>Yeah, it’s inextricably linked to state and federal water policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So, someone who pays really close attention to this is Jon Rosenfield, and he’s the senior scientist with the San Francisco Baykeeper. He points to inaction on part of the state as leading to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jon Rosenfield \u003c/strong>We have increasingly good scientific evidence that that journey, the success of that journey, is really dependent on the flow and in rivers when the fish are trying to migrate. The lower the flow, the less they survive. And that flow in the rivers is also determined by state and federal water management policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So in California, we have these kind of sets of rules that govern how water should work in the state. And what is supposed to happen is that they are meant to be reevaluated and updated if needed every three years. In reality, the plan controlling what happens in the Sacramento Delta. It dates from 1995. It’s been updated here and there, but it is really awaiting a big overhaul. In 2018, the Jerry Brown administration tried to update part of those rules. He allowed his water agency to kind of take, you know, exert some control in this area. They were coming up with a new plan to increase the flows and to really improve conditions in those rivers. It was going to mean less water for irrigators. Irrigators were really upset. But it was seen as a plan that was very effective for improving ecosystem health and, you know, advocating on behalf of the fish and on behalf of communities that live along these rivers that kind of want to enjoy clean, flowing water. But 2018 was also the year that Governor Newsom was elected. And before they could go into effect, he basically put a chill on that and said, we’re just going to pause and we’re not going to do that right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jon Rosenfield \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom and throughout his administration, starting on election night, has actively blocked update of those water quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has governor, after governor failed to update these rules, which seem really important, especially when water just increasingly seems to be this sort of like finite resource and is we have to make decisions about where that water goes, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I mean, this is not a politically winning issue. It’s very difficult. You have different sides that have different values. It’s a hard it’s a hard issue. I mean, people talk about, you know, these California water wars. This is something that’s been going on for decades and it’s still going on. And, you know, to some people’s mind, they just don’t feel winnable. I mean, agriculture is a very big political player in our state, and a lot of money can be made in agriculture. They have very old claims on water and there is a lot of political power behind, you know, big agribusiness interests. And Governor, after governor and you know, many people believe Newsom in particular is very loathe to do anything to upset them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom has gotten a lot of heat for this. How has he responded to allegations that their policy decisions are to blame for what’s happened to the salmon this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom has pushed away the idea of any responsibility for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>I take this issue seriously. I’ll take a backseat to no governor in the United States of America in terms of my environmental stewardship and passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>He was asked about this at a press conference this spring. And, you know, his response was pretty striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Gavin Newsom: \u003c/strong>What what occurs? The salmon that happened three years ago. So anyone who suggests otherwise is being purposely misleading or a knowingly misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>I basically I couldn’t possibly have had any effect on that. You know, and he he has been governor for four and a half years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It seems like everyone affected agrees that something went wrong. And the governor clearly thinks he has nothing to do with it. But, I mean, going back to these rules, Danielle, they haven’t been updated in decades. So what is the state’s vision here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So the state has put its emphasis behind what are called voluntary agreements, and these are non regulatory frameworks. The state says that these are voluntary agreements are a better approach because if everyone can kind of get the part that they really care about, then maybe we can avoid lawsuits. That’s part of why these plans are so hard to update because they are tied up in litigation for years and years and years and years. Tribes and conservation groups and environmental justice groups say that these agreements are completely unacceptable because they cut them out of the decision making process when the real important decisions are being made and that the state has only asked for feedback on their voluntary agreements after, you know, they were largely hashed out. And they say that’s totally unacceptable. And the big emphasis of these voluntary agreements are restoring habitat, which is great, but it seems a big emphasis of these agreements is not putting more water in the rivers and allowing more water to flow. And, you know, fish can have all the habitat they want, but if there’s not water in the river, they’re not going to make it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It sounds like you’re saying it’s just kind of impossible at this point to really think that we can satisfy everyone when it comes to water, when there isn’t enough of it, and someone has to make that hard decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Yeah, but I would say like there is definitely enough water for everyone to have drinking water for everyone to wash their dishes and have showers and stuff. I mean, the point where this gets really difficult is like, can we grow hundreds of thousands of acres of nut trees that are exported around the world and that are extremely profitable and are extremely thirsty crops? We’re not talking about subsistence agriculture here. We’re not talking about growing the food that we’re going to survive on. You know, to hear some people at the state level talk, you would think that like if we all just sit together at the same table and put our heads together and hash it out, we can come up with some compromise where everyone can get their needs and wants met. And I’m not sure that that’s realistic, especially in difficult dry years if salmon are going to get the amount of water that they need to support them. We are not also going to be able to support the number of acres that are currently planted. Something is going to give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, what’s next here, Danielle? Like, what are these communities, these fissures, these tribes? What are they pushing for now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>They’re pushing for the state to take more action. They’re pushing for a seat at the table. I recently attended a rally in Sacramento on the Capitol steps where, you know, this broad coalition came together to try to get the attention of lawmakers. There’s also a group that feels so neglected by the state that they are petitioning the Environmental Protection Agents Agency, a federal agency, to step in and enforce the Clean Water Act. They say that’s how dire it is and that the state is not taking care of their needs and that that is a violation of their civil rights. And the last I heard, the EPA was kind of looking at this issue and deciding if they had the authority to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>And if the salmon aren’t doing good, we’re not doing good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>So I spoke with a man, Jason Jackson-Reed, who’s a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>Our physical, our cultural, our spiritual well-being, it all runs parallel to the salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>And he was there at the rally with his one year, one month old son cradled in a carrier, very much thinking about the next generation. He said that this story is not going to change until native people start having a role in making management decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Jason Jackson-Reed: \u003c/strong>It’s not going to change until, you know, the natives start writing the narrative and we start reading, digitizing, you know, a management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’ve been talking about salmon. And I think it’s fair to say that most people interact with salmon when they eat it. But beyond that, why should we all have a stake in having a healthy salmon season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>When salmon are doing well, the environment is doing well, and that’s an environment that supports us all and that we all enjoy. It is part of the natural heritage of the state. And supporting salmon also supports the native people who were the original caretakers of this land. A lot of people talk about this issue in these very simple terms, this very simple dichotomy of fish versus farms. And of course, we support farms and we need food. But salmon are also food, and a healthy salmon run means a healthy environment. Salmon. And to simplify it. Almond trees are not equivalent species. You know, one is integral to California environment, the people of California. And one is an export crop that is profitable and that is optional to grow. Each of us can decide where our values lie within that. But, you know, for thinking about the long term future, our life is getting better. Our children’s life is going to be better if we do take care of rivers and streams and the health of our salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Danielle, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Danielle Venton: \u003c/strong>Thank you so much for having me, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Governor Newsom has requested federal disaster relief money for commercial fishers impacted by the canceled salmon season. Danielle says that money is believed to be on its way, but it’s not here yet. Meanwhile, Danielle says fishers that she’s spoken with have told her they’d much rather fish than have to rely on these funds. That was Danielle Venton, a science and climate reporter for KQED. At the top of this episode, you also heard from Sarah Bates, a commercial fisher. John McManus with the Golden State Salmon Association. And Jason Jackson Reed, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. This 45-minute conversation with Danielle was cut down and edited by our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. The rest of our team here at KQED includes Jen Chien. Our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager. César Saldaña, our podcast engagement producer. And Holly Kernan, our chief content officer. The Bay is a production of a member supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevara. Thank you so much for listening. From all of us here at The Bay, Peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957340/why-californias-salmon-season-was-canceled","authors":["8654","11088","11802","11649"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_31711","news_19204","news_3531","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_135276","label":"source_news_11957340"},"news_11954645":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11954645","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11954645","score":null,"sort":[1688595838000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-salmon-fishers-are-facing-a-summer-without-salmon-will-they-get-federal-help","title":"California's Salmon Fishers Are Facing a Summer Without Salmon. Will They Get Federal Help?","publishDate":1688595838,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California’s Salmon Fishers Are Facing a Summer Without Salmon. Will They Get Federal Help? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n another day, Matt Juanes would have set out on the water long before sunrise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this still June morning, Juanes was taking his time. As dawn flickered across the sky, the San Francisco-based commercial fisher and his deckhand carefully checked their ropes and bait jars and the dozens of fishing pots piled at the back of Juanes’ boat. Juanes was hoping to get ahead of any issues they might encounter out at sea. Still, he was almost certain something would go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanes, an experienced salmon and crab fisher who has worked out of Fisherman’s Wharf for over five years, is no stranger to the trade. Today, though, he would be chasing an unfamiliar catch for the first time: coonstripe shrimp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all new to me,” Juanes, 46, said. “This is going to be a learning experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11954620 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"A person works with brightly colored buoys aboard a boat beside a pier.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954621\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954621\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos side-by-side: on the left, the silhouette of a person is seen against an early morning sky; on the right, boats are seen in harbor early in the morning.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-800x285.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-1020x364.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-160x57.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-2048x731.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-1920x685.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: Dawn flickers across the sky as salmon fisher Matt Juanes checks his buoys at Pier 47 in San Francisco on June 7, 2023. With California’s salmon season shut down this year, Juanes is pivoting to try fishing for shrimp for the first time. Left: Deckhand Angelo Rovetta prepares jars of bait as he and Juanes set sail from Pier 47. Right: The sun rises over Fisherman’s Wharf. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juanes is one of hundreds of commercial fishers who dock along the Golden State coast and who would normally be out hunting mighty chinook or “king” salmon — the mainstay of California’s commercial salmon fishing industry. The first months of summer are typically a premier time for both salmon and salmon fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this summer, California’s salmon fishing season is completely shut down for the first time in over a decade. Last year, only \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=210788&inline\">62,000 adult fall chinook salmon returned\u003c/a> to the rivers of the Sacramento Valley to spawn — the third-worst year on record, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. In April, the Pacific Fishery Management Council issued its response: Salmon fishing all along the California coast \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2023/04/pacific-fishery-management-council-adopts-2023-west-coast-ocean-salmon-seasons.pdf/\">would be shut down (PDF)\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, which fishery managers hope will give salmon time to recover, has left California’s commercial fishers scrambling to find alternate sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of fear and panic all up and down the coast,” said John McManus, senior policy director of the Golden State Salmon Association, at a press conference in April. “People are wondering how they’re gonna pay the bills this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration is considering whether to declare a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/resources-fishing/frequent-questions-fishery-disaster-assistance\">federal resource disaster\u003c/a>, which would allow Congress to provide financial assistance to people affected by the closure. A disaster declaration came swiftly during the last salmon fishing closures in 2008 and 2009, and political leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, have called on the federal government to act quickly again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as summer arrives, fishers are still waiting for news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954622\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"Two people, one inside a boat and leaning on a steering wheel and the other outside, talk.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanes chats with Rovetta as he guides the Plumeria toward the mouth of San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at Fisherman’s Wharf on that early June morning, Juanes and his deckhand, Angelo Rovetta, were making the final preparations to Juanes’ boat, the FV Plumeria, to set out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmon account for close to two-thirds of his income every year, Juanes says, meaning a federal relief check would make a big difference. Shrimping could bring in some cash, he said, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near enough to make up the loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s going to replace salmon,” he said. “It’s going to be a real tough struggle this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Rovetta undid the moorings, and headed for the open ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954623\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954623 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A.jpg\" alt=\"A large fish jumps against a section of concrete splashing water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An adult chinook salmon hurls itself against a section of concrete near Nimbus Dam in Gold River on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The salmon, the fishers and the crash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biologists have estimated that before the Gold Rush, more than 1 million fall chinook would come back to the Central Valley to spawn — a stark contrast to the 62,000 that arrived last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline is largely the result of nearly \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16029\">two centuries of environmental degradation\u003c/a> the Central Valley’s rivers and tributaries have suffered since the Gold Rush, first through the effects of intensive gold mining, then thanks to generations of dam and levee building and massive water diversions to serve the state’s farms and cities. Introduction of non-native predators and fishing pressure have also played a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954624\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954624 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A.jpg\" alt=\"A bird flies over river with dried grasses on its banks and a low bridge in the background.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bird soars over fall chinook salmon spawning grounds along the American River in Gold River on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dams cut off most chinook from their cold-water spawning grounds in the upper reaches of Central Valley tributaries and streams. To try to mitigate the damage, state and federal authorities built \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species-conservation/hatchery-programs-california\">hatcheries\u003c/a> up and down the valley. But now, the effects of climate change — limiting the supply of cold water during drought years and playing havoc with salmon’s food supply in the Pacific Ocean — appear to be accelerating the fish’s decline. The fall chinook population has plunged to record lows twice over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although salmon numbers tend to rise and fall every few years, researchers say the fall chinook have become increasingly volatile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not in a great phase,” said Rachael Ryan, a doctoral candidate studying salmon life histories at UC Berkeley. “It’s just going to get worse — the unpredictability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954625\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954625 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing jackets and sweatshirts with their hoods up and baseball caps all look in the same direction on a gray day.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Juanes (gray jacket with orange sleeves, looking down at phone) and other fishers listen as political leaders and fishers address the shutdown of the year’s salmon fishing season at Pier 47 in San Francisco on April 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fishery disaster declarations, explained\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When disaster hits one of the country’s regional fishing areas, or fisheries, the federal government can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/resources-fishing/frequent-questions-fishery-disaster-assistance\">a disaster declaration\u003c/a> to send aid checks directly to the fishing communities affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Commerce Department did just that after several crab and salmon fisheries failed in Alaska and Washington state. The decision led to $220 million in aid for the fishers, businesses and communities those disasters affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government also declared a disaster when critically low numbers of chinook salmon led fishery managers to shut down fishing off the California coast in 2008 and 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How a declaration works\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first step in the disaster declaration process is a request for aid, often from a state governor. Then, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> (NOAA) looks at the situation and reviews that request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the secretary of commerce makes the final decision on whether to declare a disaster. The declaration moves to Congress, which decides how many federal dollars to set aside for relief aid. Finally, NOAA distributes the funds to fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How quickly did it happen last time?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s last salmon closure happened, the disaster process moved fast. In March 2008, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington signed a letter asking for a federal disaster declaration. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez issued the declaration May 1. In July, Congress approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/nov/26/70-million-released-for-salmon-disaster-aid/\">$170 million\u003c/a> in relief. By September, payments had started making their way to salmon fishers along the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A.jpg\" alt=\"A hunched over woman speaks into microphones while surrounded by people in front of a boat by a pier.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporters speak to U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi at a press conference to address the shutdown of this year’s salmon fishing season, at Pier 47 in San Francisco on April 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where are we right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process is moving more slowly this year. Newsom formally requested a disaster declaration on April 6, but it’s still unclear when or whether the Commerce Department will act. A NOAA spokesperson told KQED that the agency is still reviewing the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are evaluating the current requests as promptly as we can,” NOAA Public Affairs Officer Michael Milstein wrote in an email. “But at this point we cannot predict a specific timeline” for referring the requests to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California’s Yurok Tribe and the governor of Oregon also have requested similar declarations for their salmon fisheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Raimondo does declare a fishery disaster in California, some experts say Congress is likely to respond promptly. Lawmakers have already set aside $300 million for fishery disaster aid as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://huffman.house.gov/imo/media/doc/California%20Salmon%20Disaster%20Declaration%20Congressional%20Support%20Letter_4.11.2023.pdf\">2023 fiscal year appropriations bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is exactly the kind of problem that Congress especially loves to respond to,” said UC Santa Barbara Professor Sarah Anderson, who studies how governments react to environmental disasters. “It’s likely to lead to some relief for those who are affected by the closure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pretty good at thinking quickly in an emergency,” San Francisco-based commercial fisher Sarah Bates told reporters during a press conference in April. “Things happen at sea. But this one is bigger than that — we need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954627\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954627 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a life vest stands beside with red and black cages looking off into the distance.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelo Rovetta looks out over the water as he and Matt Juanes prepare to drop their shrimping gear off the Northern California coast. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A long year ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether aid comes or not, this year will be a long one for many salmon fishers. Some, like Juanes, are making sharp pivots to new kinds of catch that they have little experience with. Others are turning to land jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All are once again confronting the murky future of California’s chinook salmon and the state’s commercial fishing sector — an industry that has shrunk \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/03/california-salmon-fishery-shut-down/#:~:text=Salmon%20season%20usually%20runs%20from%20May%20through%20October.\">from thousands of boats in the 1980s to fewer than 500\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A.jpg\" alt=\"Two men work with red and black cages on a boat.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954629\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos side-by-side: On the left, a view of the ocean seen through the cabin windows of a boat; on the right, small crests of water on the ocean.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-800x285.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-1020x364.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-160x57.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-2048x731.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-1920x685.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: Rovetta (left) and Juanes haul stacks of extra shrimp pots from a storage area belowdecks. Left: Clouds darken the sky above the Pacific Ocean through the cabin windows of the Plumeria. Right: The water is calm as the Plumeria floats off coast; Juanes waited for mild weather to make his first attempt at shrimping. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juanes suspects fishery managers will want to give salmon more time to recover and cancel next year’s fishing season, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they turned out along the coastline toward his planned shrimping grounds, Juanes leaned on the helm and recalled his decision to start fishing full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanes himself was not a commercial fisher during the chaos of the last salmon closures in 2008 and 2009. He was at work repairing high-end ovens and stoves across Northern California. It was a stressful job, full of hours of traffic and frustrated clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drove all over the place and kind of burnt myself out,” he said. “I just never felt really happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954630\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"A man smiles holding a cup of coffee and leaning on the steering wheel of a boat. Through the window over his shoulder is the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanes smiles as he guides the Plumeria toward the mouth of the bay. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his spare time, Juanes would drive to the coast from his home in Santa Clara, take a small boat with an outboard motor out on the water and go fishing for halibut and rockfish. He didn’t completely know what he was doing, but he knew that it felt a lot better than his appliance work. In 2017, Juanes made the decision to leave his job to start fishing commercially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Juanes wishes he had taken more time to learn about the industry before taking that leap. He wasn’t prepared for how demanding the work was and didn’t know that the industry was facing turbulent conditions. That year, the number of chinook salmon returning to the rivers \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=210788&inline\">had plunged again\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Juanes says he has no regrets. Immediately, he remembers, he felt some of the stress lift from his shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t say it was the smartest thing to do,” he said. “But it was something that I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on the water, Juanes slowed the Plumeria to a crawl. The ocean was calm and still. In the distance, the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge rose against a gray sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954631\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954631 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"Two men work together with a cage and rope on a boat on the water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanes and Rovetta prepare to drop a line of shrimp pots. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juanes and Rovetta hauled their shrimp gear up against the railing and readied a long length of rope and a set of buoys. Rovetta rearranged a stack of shrimp pots so they were ready to drop into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kind of scary, setting all this up and then knowing you’re just throwing it out in the ocean,” Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughed. “Hopefully it comes back to me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos side-by-side: On the left, a view of San Francisco skyline seen through a window on a boat. On the right: two men work on a boat in a dock.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-800x285.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-1020x364.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-160x57.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-2048x731.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-1920x685.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954633\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of hands holding a shrimp with red stripes.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top left: The San Francisco skyline is seen through a window from the cabin of the Plumeria. Top right: Juanes and Rovetta guide the Plumeria back into Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco. Bottom: Juanes proudly displays a freshly caught coonstripe shrimp at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, two days later on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Commercial fishers are scrambling to find alternate sources of income with California's salmon season completely shut down for the first time in over a decade.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1688668799,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":2115},"headData":{"title":"California's Salmon Fishers Are Facing a Summer Without Salmon. Will They Get Federal Help? | KQED","description":"Commercial fishers are scrambling to find alternate sources of income with California's salmon season completely shut down for the first time in over a decade.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California's Salmon Fishers Are Facing a Summer Without Salmon. Will They Get Federal Help?","datePublished":"2023-07-05T22:23:58.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-06T18:39:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/koritsuzuki\">Kori Suzuki\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11954645/californias-salmon-fishers-are-facing-a-summer-without-salmon-will-they-get-federal-help","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n another day, Matt Juanes would have set out on the water long before sunrise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this still June morning, Juanes was taking his time. As dawn flickered across the sky, the San Francisco-based commercial fisher and his deckhand carefully checked their ropes and bait jars and the dozens of fishing pots piled at the back of Juanes’ boat. Juanes was hoping to get ahead of any issues they might encounter out at sea. Still, he was almost certain something would go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanes, an experienced salmon and crab fisher who has worked out of Fisherman’s Wharf for over five years, is no stranger to the trade. Today, though, he would be chasing an unfamiliar catch for the first time: coonstripe shrimp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is all new to me,” Juanes, 46, said. “This is going to be a learning experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11954620 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"A person works with brightly colored buoys aboard a boat beside a pier.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/02_RS66391_230607-salmon-closures-02-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954621\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954621\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos side-by-side: on the left, the silhouette of a person is seen against an early morning sky; on the right, boats are seen in harbor early in the morning.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-800x285.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-1020x364.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-160x57.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-2048x731.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/03_preparing-to-depart_horizontal-7A-1920x685.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: Dawn flickers across the sky as salmon fisher Matt Juanes checks his buoys at Pier 47 in San Francisco on June 7, 2023. With California’s salmon season shut down this year, Juanes is pivoting to try fishing for shrimp for the first time. Left: Deckhand Angelo Rovetta prepares jars of bait as he and Juanes set sail from Pier 47. Right: The sun rises over Fisherman’s Wharf. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juanes is one of hundreds of commercial fishers who dock along the Golden State coast and who would normally be out hunting mighty chinook or “king” salmon — the mainstay of California’s commercial salmon fishing industry. The first months of summer are typically a premier time for both salmon and salmon fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this summer, California’s salmon fishing season is completely shut down for the first time in over a decade. Last year, only \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=210788&inline\">62,000 adult fall chinook salmon returned\u003c/a> to the rivers of the Sacramento Valley to spawn — the third-worst year on record, according to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. In April, the Pacific Fishery Management Council issued its response: Salmon fishing all along the California coast \u003ca href=\"https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/2023/04/pacific-fishery-management-council-adopts-2023-west-coast-ocean-salmon-seasons.pdf/\">would be shut down (PDF)\u003c/a> this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision, which fishery managers hope will give salmon time to recover, has left California’s commercial fishers scrambling to find alternate sources of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of fear and panic all up and down the coast,” said John McManus, senior policy director of the Golden State Salmon Association, at a press conference in April. “People are wondering how they’re gonna pay the bills this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration is considering whether to declare a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/resources-fishing/frequent-questions-fishery-disaster-assistance\">federal resource disaster\u003c/a>, which would allow Congress to provide financial assistance to people affected by the closure. A disaster declaration came swiftly during the last salmon fishing closures in 2008 and 2009, and political leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, have called on the federal government to act quickly again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as summer arrives, fishers are still waiting for news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954622\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954622\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"Two people, one inside a boat and leaning on a steering wheel and the other outside, talk.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/04_RS66400_230607-salmon-closures-14-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanes chats with Rovetta as he guides the Plumeria toward the mouth of San Francisco Bay. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at Fisherman’s Wharf on that early June morning, Juanes and his deckhand, Angelo Rovetta, were making the final preparations to Juanes’ boat, the FV Plumeria, to set out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salmon account for close to two-thirds of his income every year, Juanes says, meaning a federal relief check would make a big difference. Shrimping could bring in some cash, he said, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near enough to make up the loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing’s going to replace salmon,” he said. “It’s going to be a real tough struggle this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Rovetta undid the moorings, and headed for the open ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954623\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954623 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A.jpg\" alt=\"A large fish jumps against a section of concrete splashing water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/05_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1662A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An adult chinook salmon hurls itself against a section of concrete near Nimbus Dam in Gold River on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The salmon, the fishers and the crash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Biologists have estimated that before the Gold Rush, more than 1 million fall chinook would come back to the Central Valley to spawn — a stark contrast to the 62,000 that arrived last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decline is largely the result of nearly \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16029\">two centuries of environmental degradation\u003c/a> the Central Valley’s rivers and tributaries have suffered since the Gold Rush, first through the effects of intensive gold mining, then thanks to generations of dam and levee building and massive water diversions to serve the state’s farms and cities. Introduction of non-native predators and fishing pressure have also played a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954624\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954624 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A.jpg\" alt=\"A bird flies over river with dried grasses on its banks and a low bridge in the background.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/06_12152022_salmontrucking_nimbushatchery-1019A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bird soars over fall chinook salmon spawning grounds along the American River in Gold River on Dec. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dams cut off most chinook from their cold-water spawning grounds in the upper reaches of Central Valley tributaries and streams. To try to mitigate the damage, state and federal authorities built \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species-conservation/hatchery-programs-california\">hatcheries\u003c/a> up and down the valley. But now, the effects of climate change — limiting the supply of cold water during drought years and playing havoc with salmon’s food supply in the Pacific Ocean — appear to be accelerating the fish’s decline. The fall chinook population has plunged to record lows twice over the last two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although salmon numbers tend to rise and fall every few years, researchers say the fall chinook have become increasingly volatile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not in a great phase,” said Rachael Ryan, a doctoral candidate studying salmon life histories at UC Berkeley. “It’s just going to get worse — the unpredictability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954625\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954625 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing jackets and sweatshirts with their hoods up and baseball caps all look in the same direction on a gray day.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/07_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-178A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Juanes (gray jacket with orange sleeves, looking down at phone) and other fishers listen as political leaders and fishers address the shutdown of the year’s salmon fishing season at Pier 47 in San Francisco on April 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fishery disaster declarations, explained\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When disaster hits one of the country’s regional fishing areas, or fisheries, the federal government can use \u003ca href=\"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/resources-fishing/frequent-questions-fishery-disaster-assistance\">a disaster declaration\u003c/a> to send aid checks directly to the fishing communities affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Commerce Department did just that after several crab and salmon fisheries failed in Alaska and Washington state. The decision led to $220 million in aid for the fishers, businesses and communities those disasters affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government also declared a disaster when critically low numbers of chinook salmon led fishery managers to shut down fishing off the California coast in 2008 and 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How a declaration works\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first step in the disaster declaration process is a request for aid, often from a state governor. Then, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a> (NOAA) looks at the situation and reviews that request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the secretary of commerce makes the final decision on whether to declare a disaster. The declaration moves to Congress, which decides how many federal dollars to set aside for relief aid. Finally, NOAA distributes the funds to fishers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How quickly did it happen last time?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When California’s last salmon closure happened, the disaster process moved fast. In March 2008, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington signed a letter asking for a federal disaster declaration. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez issued the declaration May 1. In July, Congress approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/nov/26/70-million-released-for-salmon-disaster-aid/\">$170 million\u003c/a> in relief. By September, payments had started making their way to salmon fishers along the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A.jpg\" alt=\"A hunched over woman speaks into microphones while surrounded by people in front of a boat by a pier.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/08_04072023_ksuzuki_salmontrucking-294-1A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reporters speak to U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi at a press conference to address the shutdown of this year’s salmon fishing season, at Pier 47 in San Francisco on April 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where are we right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process is moving more slowly this year. Newsom formally requested a disaster declaration on April 6, but it’s still unclear when or whether the Commerce Department will act. A NOAA spokesperson told KQED that the agency is still reviewing the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are evaluating the current requests as promptly as we can,” NOAA Public Affairs Officer Michael Milstein wrote in an email. “But at this point we cannot predict a specific timeline” for referring the requests to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northern California’s Yurok Tribe and the governor of Oregon also have requested similar declarations for their salmon fisheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Raimondo does declare a fishery disaster in California, some experts say Congress is likely to respond promptly. Lawmakers have already set aside $300 million for fishery disaster aid as part of the \u003ca href=\"https://huffman.house.gov/imo/media/doc/California%20Salmon%20Disaster%20Declaration%20Congressional%20Support%20Letter_4.11.2023.pdf\">2023 fiscal year appropriations bill\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is exactly the kind of problem that Congress especially loves to respond to,” said UC Santa Barbara Professor Sarah Anderson, who studies how governments react to environmental disasters. “It’s likely to lead to some relief for those who are affected by the closure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pretty good at thinking quickly in an emergency,” San Francisco-based commercial fisher Sarah Bates told reporters during a press conference in April. “Things happen at sea. But this one is bigger than that — we need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954627\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954627 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a life vest stands beside with red and black cages looking off into the distance.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/09_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-472A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelo Rovetta looks out over the water as he and Matt Juanes prepare to drop their shrimping gear off the Northern California coast. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A long year ahead\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether aid comes or not, this year will be a long one for many salmon fishers. Some, like Juanes, are making sharp pivots to new kinds of catch that they have little experience with. Others are turning to land jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All are once again confronting the murky future of California’s chinook salmon and the state’s commercial fishing sector — an industry that has shrunk \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2023/03/california-salmon-fishery-shut-down/#:~:text=Salmon%20season%20usually%20runs%20from%20May%20through%20October.\">from thousands of boats in the 1980s to fewer than 500\u003c/a> today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954628\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A.jpg\" alt=\"Two men work with red and black cages on a boat.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/10_20230607_salmon_mattjuanes-834A-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954629\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos side-by-side: On the left, a view of the ocean seen through the cabin windows of a boat; on the right, small crests of water on the ocean.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-800x285.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-1020x364.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-160x57.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-2048x731.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/11_ocean_landscapeA-1920x685.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top: Rovetta (left) and Juanes haul stacks of extra shrimp pots from a storage area belowdecks. Left: Clouds darken the sky above the Pacific Ocean through the cabin windows of the Plumeria. Right: The water is calm as the Plumeria floats off coast; Juanes waited for mild weather to make his first attempt at shrimping. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juanes suspects fishery managers will want to give salmon more time to recover and cancel next year’s fishing season, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they turned out along the coastline toward his planned shrimping grounds, Juanes leaned on the helm and recalled his decision to start fishing full time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juanes himself was not a commercial fisher during the chaos of the last salmon closures in 2008 and 2009. He was at work repairing high-end ovens and stoves across Northern California. It was a stressful job, full of hours of traffic and frustrated clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I drove all over the place and kind of burnt myself out,” he said. “I just never felt really happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954630\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954630\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"A man smiles holding a cup of coffee and leaning on the steering wheel of a boat. Through the window over his shoulder is the Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/12_RS66403_230607-salmon-closures-13-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanes smiles as he guides the Plumeria toward the mouth of the bay. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In his spare time, Juanes would drive to the coast from his home in Santa Clara, take a small boat with an outboard motor out on the water and go fishing for halibut and rockfish. He didn’t completely know what he was doing, but he knew that it felt a lot better than his appliance work. In 2017, Juanes made the decision to leave his job to start fishing commercially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking back, Juanes wishes he had taken more time to learn about the industry before taking that leap. He wasn’t prepared for how demanding the work was and didn’t know that the industry was facing turbulent conditions. That year, the number of chinook salmon returning to the rivers \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=210788&inline\">had plunged again\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Juanes says he has no regrets. Immediately, he remembers, he felt some of the stress lift from his shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t say it was the smartest thing to do,” he said. “But it was something that I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on the water, Juanes slowed the Plumeria to a crawl. The ocean was calm and still. In the distance, the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge rose against a gray sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954631\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11954631 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"Two men work together with a cage and rope on a boat on the water.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/13_RS66419_230607-salmon-closures-31-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juanes and Rovetta prepare to drop a line of shrimp pots. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Juanes and Rovetta hauled their shrimp gear up against the railing and readied a long length of rope and a set of buoys. Rovetta rearranged a stack of shrimp pots so they were ready to drop into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kind of scary, setting all this up and then knowing you’re just throwing it out in the ocean,” Juanes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughed. “Hopefully it comes back to me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA.jpg\" alt=\"Two photos side-by-side: On the left, a view of San Francisco skyline seen through a window on a boat. On the right: two men work on a boat in a dock.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"892\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-800x285.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-1020x364.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-160x57.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-2048x731.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/14_back-to-the-doc_landscapeA-1920x685.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954633\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2500px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954633\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of hands holding a shrimp with red stripes.\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1662\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA.jpg 2500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/15_RS66458_230607-salmon-closures-71-ksA-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top left: The San Francisco skyline is seen through a window from the cabin of the Plumeria. Top right: Juanes and Rovetta guide the Plumeria back into Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco. Bottom: Juanes proudly displays a freshly caught coonstripe shrimp at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, two days later on June 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11954645/californias-salmon-fishers-are-facing-a-summer-without-salmon-will-they-get-federal-help","authors":["byline_news_11954645"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18538","news_23987","news_20023","news_22588","news_19904","news_3531"],"featImg":"news_11954999","label":"news"},"news_11882491":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11882491","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11882491","score":null,"sort":[1627346672000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"warming-rivers-killing-juvenile-salmon-in-california-imperiling-fish-industry","title":"Warming Rivers Killing Juvenile Salmon in California, Imperiling Fishing Industry","publishDate":1627346672,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another. Fishermen who make their living off adult salmon, once they enter the Pacific Ocean, are sounding the alarm as blistering heat waves and extended drought in the U.S. West raise water temperatures and imperil fish from Idaho to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/droughts-climate-change-science-government-and-politics-environment-and-nature-dd8ef971f3083006b6f314e24d530f27\">dying in Northern California’s Klamath River\u003c/a> as low water levels brought about by drought allow a parasite to thrive, devastating a Native American tribe whose diet and traditions are tied to the fish. And wildlife officials said the Sacramento River is facing a “near-complete loss” of young Chinook salmon due to abnormally warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crash in one year’s class of young salmon can have lasting effects on the total population and shorten or stop the fishing season, a growing concern as climate change continues to make the West hotter and drier. That could be devastating to the commercial salmon fishing industry, which in California alone is worth $1.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plummeting catch already has led to skyrocketing retail prices for salmon, hurting customers who say they can no longer afford the $35 per pound of fish, said Mike Hudson, who has spent the last 25 years catching and selling salmon at farmers markets in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said he has considered retiring and selling his 40-foot boat because “it’s going to get worse from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter-run Chinook salmon are born in the Sacramento River, traverse hundreds of miles to the Pacific, where they normally spend three years before returning to their birthplace to mate and lay their eggs between April and August. Unlike the fall-run Chinook that survives almost entirely due to hatchery breeding programs, the winter run is still largely reared in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal fisheries officials predicted in May that more than 80% of baby salmon could die because of warmer water in the Sacramento River. Now, state wildlife officials say that number could be higher amid a rapidly depleting pool of cool water in Lake Shasta. California's largest reservoir is filled to only about 35% capacity, federal water managers said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pain we’re going to feel is a few years from now, when there will be no naturally spawned salmon out in the ocean,\" said John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, which represents the fishing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"John McManus, Golden State Salmon Association\"]'The pain we’re going to feel is a few years from now, when there will be no naturally spawned salmon out in the ocean.'[/pullquote]When Lake Shasta was formed in the 1940s, it blocked access to the cool mountain streams where fish traditionally spawned. To ensure their survival, the U.S. government is required to maintain river temperatures below 56 degrees Fahrenheit in spawning habitat because salmon eggs generally can't withstand anything warmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm water is starting to affect older fish, too. Scientists have seen some adult fish dying before they can lay their eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An extreme set of cascading climate events is pushing us into this crisis situation,\" said Jordan Traverso, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West has been grappling with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-science-environment-and-nature-droughts-bb2a2455f9d1e8d67a07817df6d51a00\">historic drought\u003c/a> and recent heat waves worsened by climate change, stressing waterways and reservoirs that sustain millions of people and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmon raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey. State and federal hatcheries take other extraordinary measures to preserve the decimated salmon stocks, such as maintaining a genetic bank to prevent inbreeding at hatcheries and releasing them at critical life stages, when they can recognize and return to the water where they were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fishermen and environmental groups blame water agencies for diverting too much water too soon to farms, which could lead to severe salmon die-off and drive the species closer to extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Drought Coverage\" tag=\"drought\"]\"We know that climate change is going to make years like this more common, and what the agencies should be doing is managing for the worst-case scenario,\" said Sam Mace, a director of Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition working to restore wild salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need some real changes in how rivers are managed if they're going to survive,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Klamath River near the Oregon state line, California wildlife officials decided not to release more than 1 million young Chinook salmon into the wild and instead drove them to hatcheries that could host them until river conditions improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much is riding on this class of salmon because it could be the first to return to the river if plans to remove four of six dams on the Klamath and restore fish access to the upper river go according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the West, officials are struggling with the similar concerns over fish populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Idaho, officials recognized that endangered sockeye salmon wouldn't make their upstream migration through hundreds of miles of warm water to their spawning habitat, so they flooded the Snake River with cool water, then trapped and trucked the fish to hatcheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And environmentalists went to court this month in Portland, Oregon, to try to force dam operators on the Snake and Columbia rivers to release more water at dams blocking migrating salmon, arguing that the effects of climate change and a recent heat wave were further threatening fish already on the verge of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Andrew Rypel, UC Davis\"]'We're at the point where I’m not sure drought is appropriate term to describe what's happening.'[/pullquote]Low water levels are also affecting recreational fishing. Officials in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and California are asking anglers to fish during the coolest parts of the day to minimize the impact on fish stressed from low-oxygen levels in warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say the salmon population in California historically has rebounded after a drought because they have evolved to tolerate the Mediterranean-like climate and benefited from rainy, wet years. But an extended drought could lead to extinction of certain runs of salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're at the point where I’m not sure drought is appropriate term to describe what's happening,\" said Andrew Rypel, a fish ecologist at UC Davis. He said the West is transitioning to an increasingly water-scarce environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson, the fisherman, said he used to spend days at sea when the salmon season was longer and could catch 100 fish per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, he said he was lucky to catch 80 to sell at the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Retiring would be the smart thing to do, but I can’t bring myself to do it because these fish have been so good to us for all these years,\" Hudson said. \"I can’t just walk away from it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, and Jim Anderson in Denver contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A crash in one year’s class of young salmon can have lasting effects on the total population and shorten or stop the fishing season, a growing concern as climate change continues to make the West hotter and drier.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1627409534,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1214},"headData":{"title":"Warming Rivers Killing Juvenile Salmon in California, Imperiling Fishing Industry | KQED","description":"A crash in one year’s class of young salmon can have lasting effects on the total population and shorten or stop the fishing season, a growing concern as climate change continues to make the West hotter and drier.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Warming Rivers Killing Juvenile Salmon in California, Imperiling Fishing Industry","datePublished":"2021-07-27T00:44:32.000Z","dateModified":"2021-07-27T18:12:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11882491 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11882491","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/07/26/warming-rivers-killing-juvenile-salmon-in-california-imperiling-fish-industry/","disqusTitle":"Warming Rivers Killing Juvenile Salmon in California, Imperiling Fishing Industry","source":"The Associated Press","sourceUrl":"https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/WarmingriversinUSWestkillingfishimperilingindustry/5c85e86a2ba18171ca55d5de8f89dea3/text?Query=california%20AND%20rivers&mediaType=text&sortBy=arrivaldatetime:desc&dateRange=Anytime&totalCount=47¤tItemNo=2","nprByline":"Daisy Nguyen \u003cbr> The Associated Press","path":"/news/11882491/warming-rivers-killing-juvenile-salmon-in-california-imperiling-fish-industry","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another. Fishermen who make their living off adult salmon, once they enter the Pacific Ocean, are sounding the alarm as blistering heat waves and extended drought in the U.S. West raise water temperatures and imperil fish from Idaho to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands of young salmon are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/droughts-climate-change-science-government-and-politics-environment-and-nature-dd8ef971f3083006b6f314e24d530f27\">dying in Northern California’s Klamath River\u003c/a> as low water levels brought about by drought allow a parasite to thrive, devastating a Native American tribe whose diet and traditions are tied to the fish. And wildlife officials said the Sacramento River is facing a “near-complete loss” of young Chinook salmon due to abnormally warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crash in one year’s class of young salmon can have lasting effects on the total population and shorten or stop the fishing season, a growing concern as climate change continues to make the West hotter and drier. That could be devastating to the commercial salmon fishing industry, which in California alone is worth $1.4 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plummeting catch already has led to skyrocketing retail prices for salmon, hurting customers who say they can no longer afford the $35 per pound of fish, said Mike Hudson, who has spent the last 25 years catching and selling salmon at farmers markets in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson said he has considered retiring and selling his 40-foot boat because “it’s going to get worse from here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winter-run Chinook salmon are born in the Sacramento River, traverse hundreds of miles to the Pacific, where they normally spend three years before returning to their birthplace to mate and lay their eggs between April and August. Unlike the fall-run Chinook that survives almost entirely due to hatchery breeding programs, the winter run is still largely reared in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal fisheries officials predicted in May that more than 80% of baby salmon could die because of warmer water in the Sacramento River. Now, state wildlife officials say that number could be higher amid a rapidly depleting pool of cool water in Lake Shasta. California's largest reservoir is filled to only about 35% capacity, federal water managers said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pain we’re going to feel is a few years from now, when there will be no naturally spawned salmon out in the ocean,\" said John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, which represents the fishing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The pain we’re going to feel is a few years from now, when there will be no naturally spawned salmon out in the ocean.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"John McManus, Golden State Salmon Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When Lake Shasta was formed in the 1940s, it blocked access to the cool mountain streams where fish traditionally spawned. To ensure their survival, the U.S. government is required to maintain river temperatures below 56 degrees Fahrenheit in spawning habitat because salmon eggs generally can't withstand anything warmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm water is starting to affect older fish, too. Scientists have seen some adult fish dying before they can lay their eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"An extreme set of cascading climate events is pushing us into this crisis situation,\" said Jordan Traverso, a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West has been grappling with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-science-environment-and-nature-droughts-bb2a2455f9d1e8d67a07817df6d51a00\">historic drought\u003c/a> and recent heat waves worsened by climate change, stressing waterways and reservoirs that sustain millions of people and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, the state has been trucking millions of salmon raised at hatcheries to the ocean each year, bypassing the perilous downstream journey. State and federal hatcheries take other extraordinary measures to preserve the decimated salmon stocks, such as maintaining a genetic bank to prevent inbreeding at hatcheries and releasing them at critical life stages, when they can recognize and return to the water where they were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fishermen and environmental groups blame water agencies for diverting too much water too soon to farms, which could lead to severe salmon die-off and drive the species closer to extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Drought Coverage ","tag":"drought"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We know that climate change is going to make years like this more common, and what the agencies should be doing is managing for the worst-case scenario,\" said Sam Mace, a director of Save Our Wild Salmon, a coalition working to restore wild salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need some real changes in how rivers are managed if they're going to survive,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Klamath River near the Oregon state line, California wildlife officials decided not to release more than 1 million young Chinook salmon into the wild and instead drove them to hatcheries that could host them until river conditions improve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much is riding on this class of salmon because it could be the first to return to the river if plans to remove four of six dams on the Klamath and restore fish access to the upper river go according to plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the West, officials are struggling with the similar concerns over fish populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Idaho, officials recognized that endangered sockeye salmon wouldn't make their upstream migration through hundreds of miles of warm water to their spawning habitat, so they flooded the Snake River with cool water, then trapped and trucked the fish to hatcheries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And environmentalists went to court this month in Portland, Oregon, to try to force dam operators on the Snake and Columbia rivers to release more water at dams blocking migrating salmon, arguing that the effects of climate change and a recent heat wave were further threatening fish already on the verge of extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We're at the point where I’m not sure drought is appropriate term to describe what's happening.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Andrew Rypel, UC Davis","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Low water levels are also affecting recreational fishing. Officials in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and California are asking anglers to fish during the coolest parts of the day to minimize the impact on fish stressed from low-oxygen levels in warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists say the salmon population in California historically has rebounded after a drought because they have evolved to tolerate the Mediterranean-like climate and benefited from rainy, wet years. But an extended drought could lead to extinction of certain runs of salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're at the point where I’m not sure drought is appropriate term to describe what's happening,\" said Andrew Rypel, a fish ecologist at UC Davis. 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That drought occurred after the Great Recession, when California routinely battled multibillion-dollar budget deficits and struggled to pay for state services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, California is flush with cash after the forecasts of damaging deficits because of the pandemic never came true. Nine months into California’s fiscal year, the state has so far collected $16.7 billion more in taxes than it had predicted. In addition, the federal government has sent the state $26 billion as part of a coronavirus relief package with broad authority on how to spend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in an unprecedented time and ... I think we shouldn't have unprecedented patience,\" said state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat. “We really have an opportunity now and we should take advantage of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California gets nearly all of its rain and snow in the winter and early spring. But this year, snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is less than half of normal while most of the state is well below their normal precipitation amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate proposal does not include money for big projects, like building new reservoirs or repairing canals in the Central Valley. Instead, the money would bolster projects and programs the state is already doing, setting them up for the dry, hot months ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We've been working with them to identify noncontroversial early action projects that will assist now — not six months from now, not a year or two or three years from now,” said Danny Merkley, director of water resources for the California Farm Bureau. Merkley said he was involved in the discussions and he is “encouraged” by the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate, Assembly and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration would need to agree on any new spending. Newsom will reveal his updated budget proposal next month. Assembly Democrats updated their “budget blueprint” on Wednesday to include “increased investments” in things like “drought resiliency” and clean water. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, said Thursday he looks forward to negotiating with Newsom and Senate leaders on a final proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"california-drought\"]About $285 million would be spent protecting fish and wildlife from the drought, including the state buying back water from farmers so it can be returned to the Sacramento and San Joaquin river delta, reducing the salinity of the water and making it safer for fish. It would also spend money on monitoring the salmon, which must swim up the state's drought-depleted rivers to spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, worried the proposal didn't do enough for the state's endangered fish species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the technology in the world so far is only delivering to us the best documented extinction of native species,” he said, referencing the delta smelt, a small fish native to California that some scientists say is practically extinct in the wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of the money, or $1 billion, would pay off the accumulated debt of unpaid water bills in the state, a problem caused by pandemic-induced economic downturn. 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That money includes $15 million to help the state better predict atmospheric rivers — the long, narrow bands of water vapor that form over the ocean and flow through the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon creates between 30% and 50% of annual precipitation on the West Coast, so knowing when and where they will occur can help officials plan on how to capture and store that water and better manage reservoirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $500 million would pay for incentive programs like grants so homeowners and local officials can replace grassy lawns and medians with landscapes that rely on little or no water. 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