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Feds: Winter salmon run nearly extinguished in California drought
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Shawn Gallagher of Costa Mesa catches a salmon on the Sacramento River in early September. Photo: Randall Benton
For the second straight year, huge numbers of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon appear to have baked to death in the Sacramento River because of California’s drought-stretched water supplies, bringing the endangered species a step closer to extinction...The shrinking winter-run population signals troubles for the state’s $1.4 billion salmon-fishing industry.
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