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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">There is always another
side to every story. Just because there is a dam, the entire length of
water is still ALL Trinity River. Coffee Creek and all other pre-dam
streams remain listed as a tributary to the Trinity River. <br>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Drought impacting salmon in
Trinity Lake</h1> </span><br>
KRCR News Report video: <a
href="http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/drought-impacting-salmon-in-trinity-lake/27765616">http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/drought-impacting-salmon-in-trinity-lake/27765616</a><br>
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255);">Kokanee Salmon Die-off Prompts Questions; No Official Explanation</h2><span
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131, 179); text-decoration: underline;">Bill Siemer</a></strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>August 31, 2014<span
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style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.79px; font-size:
1.1em; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Thousands of dead and dying Kokanee
salmon were floating on the upper end of Lewiston Lake this week after
increased flows were initiated to save this fall’s run of adult Chinook
salmon in the lower Klamath River.</p><div id="attachment_70465"
class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin: 0px auto 15px; padding:
10px 5px 10px 10px; text-align: center; display: block; float: none;
width: 430px; background: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><a
href="http://anewscafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dead-fish-another-view.jpg"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(43, 131, 179);
text-decoration: underline;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-70465"
title="dead fish another view" src="cid:part1.04060204.05010108@tds.net"
alt="" data-pinit="registered" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px;
border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; float: none;"
height="315" width="420"></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin:
0px; padding: 5px 0px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size:
1.1em; text-align: center;">Thousands of dead Kokanee salmon float on
Lewiston Lake. Photo by Bill Siemer.</p></div><p style="margin: 15px
0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">The
dead Kokanee fingerlings, floating belly side up, were killed by the
rapid change in pressure which occurred when they were sucked into
Trinity Dam’s intake shafts when water was released downstream into
Lewiston Lake, according to a knowledgeable source who asked not to be
named.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height:
20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">The four-to-six inch Kokanee
were washing up on the Lewiston Lake shore for a quarter of a mile on
Tuesday evening when this reporter kayaked by. Early estimates, given to
the Trinity Journal, had the losses between 200 to 400. The source
estimated the die-off at 2,000. However, dead fingerlings were scattered
on the Lake’s bottom and caught in the marshy grasses. Eagles, buzzards
and crows dined from the shore. It was a smelly mess.</p><div
id="attachment_70466" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin: 0px
auto 15px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 10px; text-align: center; display:
block; float: none; width: 430px; background: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><a
href="http://anewscafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dead-fish-food-for-vultures.jpg"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(43, 131, 179);
text-decoration: underline;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-70466"
title="dead fish food for vultures"
src="cid:part2.01040802.08050209@tds.net" alt="" data-pinit="registered"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);
display: block; float: none;" height="386" width="420"></a><p
class="wp-caption-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;
line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em; text-align:
center;">Vultures and other creatures feast on the dead fish at Lewiston
Lake. Photo by Bill Siemer.</p></div><p style="margin: 15px 0px;
padding: 0px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">Kokanee
need cold water to survive and the land-locked Kokanee are forced
deeper into Trinity Lake as the water is released downstream. The Lake
dropped 5.84 feet during the week ending August 25, according to the U.
S. Bureau of Reclamation, which made the decision to increase the flows
last week.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height:
20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">The Bureau’s website reported
that releases from Lewiston Dam began at 7 a.m. on August 23.</p><p
style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height:
20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">Initially, the release was
raised from 450 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 950 cfs. At 7 a.m. on
August 25, releases from Lewiston Dam were increased to 2,450 cfs for a
period of 24 hours, then dropped to 950 cfs. The goal, according to the
Bureau, is to keep the lower Klamath at approximately 2,500 cfs until
September 14.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height:
20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">Trinity Lake’s depth, as of
August 25, was 316.27 feet, according to the Bureau’s website, with the
Lake being 29 percent full. As of the end of that week, the average
release to Whiskeytown and the Carr Powerhouse, was 2,119 cfs, while the
Trinity River release averaged 1,650 cfs.</p><p style="margin: 15px
0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size: 1.1em;">The
Bureau’s decision to increase the flow of water for the lower Klamath
salmon was met immediately by lawsuits from several water districts in
the Sacramento Valley. A federal judge denied their request.</p><div
id="attachment_70464" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="margin: 0px
auto 15px; padding: 10px 5px 10px 10px; text-align: center; display:
block; float: none; width: 430px; background: rgb(239, 239, 239);"><a
href="http://anewscafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dead-floating-fish.jpg"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(43, 131, 179);
text-decoration: underline;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-70464"
title="Dead floating fish" src="cid:part3.00040806.08060302@tds.net"
alt="" data-pinit="registered" style="margin: 0px; padding: 2px; border:
1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); display: block; float: none;"
height="315" width="420"></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin:
0px; padding: 5px 0px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size:
1.1em; text-align: center;">Thousands of dead fish litter Lewiston Lake
in Trinity County. Photo by Bill Siemer.</p></div><p style="margin: 15px
0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px; font-size:
1.1em;">Calls to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in
Redding, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, seeking answers to
questions regarding how many Kokanee are actually dying and whether the
die-off is expected to have an impact on the Kokanee fishery, were not
returned.</p></div></div> </span><br>
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