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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><font
size=6 color="#253b5a" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:Arial;color:#253B5A;font-weight:bold'>DFG News Release<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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color="#253b5a" face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#253B5A;font-weight:bold'>Shasta Irrigators Commended for Efforts
to Assist Chinook Spawning Run<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Oct. 15, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>Contact:<br>
Mark Pisano, Senior Fishery Biologist, (530) 842-9322<br>
Harry Morse, DFG Communications, (916) 322-8962<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>The California
Department of Fish and Game (DFG) commends <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Shasta</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
irrigators for their recent timely action to protect Chinook salmon. Their
voluntary decision to reduce or cease legal water diversions during the
irrigation season allowed more than 1,000 Chinook salmon congregated in the
lower portion of the Shasta River to successfully continue their spawning run. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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.15in;margin-left:0in'><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span lang=EN
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>DFG has been
monitoring the return of Chinook salmon to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Shasta</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
since 1930. This year's fish count began on September 4; when DFG scientists
reviewed the data, it became clear that low flows and warm weather, along with
disease and unusually high predation rates, were threatening the spawning run. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>“Once
irrigators were notified of the situation, many responded without
hesitation,” said DFG Senior Fishery Biologist Mark Pisano.
“Although they could have continued their legal water diversions
upstream, some chose to release more water to aid the fish holding in the
canyon. DFG believes this action helped minimize the potential for a major fish
die-off.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>Adjudicated water
diversions in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Shasta</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> are governed by a
complex set of rules identified in the Shasta River Decree (#7035). Irrigation
is allowed from April 1 through October 1 each year and water rights holders
are not legally required to alter their operations to assist the fish runs. The
voluntary decisions made by these water rights holders - such as Shasta Big
Springs Ranch, which shut off ranch irrigation entirely - contributed an
estimated 13 cubic feet per second to the river flow.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><em><i><font color=gray
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