{"id":770,"date":"2019-04-05T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=770"},"modified":"2019-04-05T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:01:37","slug":"california-cant-save-fish-by-diverting-more-water-from-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/california-cant-save-fish-by-diverting-more-water-from-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"California can\u2019t save fish by diverting more water from rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A male Chinook salmon returns from the Pacific to spawn. Photo via California Sea Grant\/Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n

By John McManus, Special to CALmatters<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> This is a response to the CALmatters commentary: \u201cFinally, a new path toward managing water, rivers and the Delta,\u201d March 19, 2019.<\/p>\n

Recent decades have brought the slow collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its salmon runs. A half dozen species face extinction. Lacking natural flushing, the Delta now suffers outbreaks of toxic algae. The salmon fishing industry suffered a shutdown in 2008 and 2009 which cost thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n

Science points to a clear cause: inadequate flows caused by excessive diversions. In some years, 90 percent of the Tuolumne River is diverted, leaving only 10 percent for salmon and the Bay-Delta. Every Central Valley salmon river also suffers from over diversion in many years.<\/p>\n

Recent proposals from water users fall far short of what is needed by salmon and required by the law.<\/p>\n

Read More: California can\u2019t save fish by diverting more water from rivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A male Chinook salmon returns from the Pacific to spawn. Photo via California Sea Grant\/Flickr By John McManus, Special to CALmatters Editor\u2019s note: This is a response to the CALmatters commentary: \u201cFinally, a new path toward managing water, rivers and the Delta,\u201d March 19, 2019. Recent decades have brought the slow collapse of the Sacramento-San […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}