Delta Plans Could Harm Salmon

If built, the Peripheral Canal skirting the Bay Delta could spell trouble for chinook salmon

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by Alastair Bland on Jul 24, 2012

Chinook salmon illustration by Amadeo Bachar.

Chinook salmon are abundant this year in one of the best seasons of local fishing memory, with sport and commercial fishermen reeling in easy boatloads of the most prized food and game fish on the Pacific Coast.

Still, at least one conservation group warns that all this could change if state officials in Sacramento, now plotting the near future of California’s water-development infrastructure, approve and build a large canal intended to deliver Sacramento River water to Southern California. Read on.

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