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California’s salmon (and salmon fishermen) catch a break today

June 18, 2009

Posted by Doug Obegi in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
california, conservation, endangered, fish, fishing, salmon, salmonfishing, water, waterprogram

Over the past 8 years of the Bush Administration, politics trumped science to enable water exports to reach unprecedented levels in California, reaping a host of consequences.  One of the consequences was that the state's native fish, particularly salmon, were...continued

We Don’t Need to Sacrifice Endangered Fish to Provide Water for Californians

February 18, 2009

Posted by Doug Obegi in Living Sustainably

Tags:
conservation, drought, endangered, killerwhale, salmon, smelt, virtualriver, water, waterprogram

In recent days, there have been various news stories about efforts to weaken environmental protections for fish in the Delta, in order to make more water available for people.  After dry years in 2007 and 2008, the low rainfall total...continued

California's Water Problems Weren't Caused By a Fish: We Need a 21st Century Water Policy for Fish and People

January 28, 2009

Posted by Doug Obegi in Living Sustainably

Tags:
baydelta, california, conservation, deltasmelt, endangeredspecies, fish, virtualriver, water

Today, we expect that the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) will announce water pumping restrictions in the Bay-Delta to protect longfin smelt from being sucked into the export pumps of the state and federal water projects. The longfin...continued

Doug Obegi
Doug Obegi
Staff Attorney, Western Water Project
San Francisco
I grew up in Orange County, California, a place bounded on one side by beautiful...
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