<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div class="" style="">http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/larger-salmon-releases-planned-after-fish-die-off_76757413 <br class="" style=""></div><header class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 2.125rem; margin-right: 2.125rem; margin-top: 0px;"><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 1.125rem; font-size: 30px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 31.5px;">Larger salmon releases planned after fish die-off</h1><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.125rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 16px;"><address class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(99, 100, 102);">Damon
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padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.3125rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 0.625rem; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</div><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 0.8125rem; line-height: 1.125rem; height: auto;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 6px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(99, 100, 102);">Winter rain recently attracted Chinook salmon into Salt Creek west of Redding. </div></div><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 0.75rem; text-transform:
uppercase; float: left; width: 512px;">DAMON ARTHUR/RECORD SEARCHLIGHT</div><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; text-align: right; width: 128px;"><button type="button" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 0.75rem; font-family: 'Noto Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(47, 97, 148); border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; outline: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px; opacity: 1; text-transform: uppercase; z-index: 5; left: 0px; display: inline;">HIDE CAPTION</button></div></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 2.125rem 1.875rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(26,
26, 26); line-height: 28.799999237060547px; word-break: break-word; float: right; width: 492px;"><div class="" data-maxpages="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; min-height: 12.5rem;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">REDDING, California - After a massive die-off last year, officials are more than tripling the number of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon released into the Sacramento River.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Next month the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to release about 600,000 winter-run Chinook into the river below Keswick Dam. The first of three releases from the Livingston Stone National Fish Hatchery is expected next week, agency
spokesman Steve Martarano said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">The winter-run salmon, which rely on cool water for spawning, took a hit when water coming out of Shasta and Keswick dams got too warm, killing off 95 percent of the eggs and recently hatched fish released from the hatchery.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Officials also believe nearly all the wild, naturally spawning salmon died due to warmer water in the river, where the fish lay eggs in the gravel.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">“It means there is a high likelihood that there may not be many, if any, naturally spawned winter-run returning to spawn in 2017,” said Jordan Traverso, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.</div><div
style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Typically, about 27 percent of the young salmon released from the hatchery survive. State officials estimate survival last year at about 5 percent, Traverso said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">The eggs and recently hatched salmon need water temperatures below 60 degrees to survive. But low water levels in Lake Shasta drove the water temperature up, said Sheri Harral, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates Shasta and Keswick dams.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">“There was no more cold water left in the lake,” Harral said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">During normal years, bureau officials
get colder water for fish from a deeper pool beneath the surface of the lake and send it through the dam into the river.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">But after three years of drought, the lake fell to its second-lowest level on record and the cold water pool was depleted, Harral said.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Before Shasta and Keswick dams were built, the winter-run salmon spawned in the cooler water upstream of where Shasta Lake is now.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">State and federal wildlife agencies have been working for decades to restore winter-run salmon levels. But from 1992 to 2012 an average of 6,191 naturally spawned winter-run returned each year to the Sacramento River, well short of the goal of
110,000.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">The winter-run is one of four Sacramento River salmon runs — winter, spring, fall and late fall. The fall run is the largest, drawing an average 70,845 naturally spawning Chinook each year.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;" class="">Officials also plan several other steps during the year to aid the fish, including rescuing fish stranded in warm water pools in the Sacramento River, releasing some fish into the cooler water of Battle Creek, doing more restoration work on Battle Creek and possibly reducing salmon catch limits in the ocean and in the river.</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></div><footer class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.75rem; position: relative; clear: both; top: 0.75rem; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New
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