Natural History Wanderings

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that as a result of the drought last year’s Salmon Run was again very low.

One of California’s last great salmon runs tallied a perilously low number of surviving offspring in 2015, scientists said Monday, marking a second year of drought-driven problems for the Sacramento River chinook, which loom on the verge of extinction. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service reported that just 3 percent of the run’s juvenile salmon survived their historic migration to sea, again dying in large numbers because the river was simply too shallow and too warm to tolerate.

Read full story at Northern California salmon run devastated, again, by drought – SFGate