Parasite infecting nearly all juvenile salmon in Klamath River in northern California
5/22/2015 8:27:21 PM
CATEGORIES:
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality
AFFECTED AREAS:
Del Norte County, CA
Humboldt County, CA
Modoc County, CA
Siskiyou County, CA
Trinity County, CA
Start Date: 5/20/2015
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Nearly all of the juvenile chinook salmon in the Klamath River in northern California were infected with a deadly parasite that thrives when the river is warm and low. Additional water releases would wash parasite-laden worms down the river, but water stored in the Klamath Basin reservoirs was already set aside for endangered sucker fish and threatened coho salmon. The Klamath Fish Health Advisory Team say that a major fish kill is likely.
Roughly 6 million juvenile chinook were being held at the Iron Gate fish hatchery with the hope that conditions will improve and the fish can be released.
Porterville Recorder (Calif.), May 20, 2015
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