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I grabbed the wrong KPOP by mistake; the 2015 Annual Operations
Plan, page 2, calls for diverting<b> 254,500 af to irrigation</b>, a
policy choice to favor irrigation over fisheries requirements.<br>
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It's worth remebering that when Reclamation says (below) that
there's too little water to help now ("We decided that is not the
most optimal use of a very short water supply at this point,”
Person said.") they are still using a 2014 Annual Operations Plan
for the Klamath Project which, at page 2 calculates the project
supply of water to be diverted from the Klamath at <b>239,000
acre-feet</b>. This is what they consider to be "most optimal."<br>
Tom<br>
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class="">KLAMATH RIVER, California - A disease
flourishing in warm drought conditions in the
Klamath River is killing young salmon and
steelhead trying to migrate out to sea.</div>
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class="">And while in some sections of the river
disease has been found in nearly all of the fish
tested, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials also
said Wednesday the drought has left little water
available to send downstream to improve
conditions.</div>
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class="">The Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team
says conditions in the river are at orange, which
means a fish kill is likely and federal and state
agencies need to be alerted.</div>
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class="">“Orange is probably underplaying the
crisis,” said Craig Tucker, natural resources
policy advocate for the Karuk Tribe, one of
several groups with the assessment team that has
biologists monitoring the river.</div>
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class="">Scott Foott, project leader for the
California-Nevada Fish Health Center in Anderson,
said about 90 percent of the fish from Klamath
brought to his center for testing have the
disease, called ceratonova Shasta.</div>
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1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">Foott didn’t know how many fish were
dying of the disease in the river, but said
mortality rate among fish with the disease is very
high. Fish biologists said conditions in the river
are bad this year because of the lack of rain and
runoff from snowmelt.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">Randy Turner, the fish health assessment
team coordinator, said with low flows and warm
water, worms that carry the disease have
flourished on the streambed.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">The problem isn’t as bad in years when
the river is cooler and runs higher and faster in
the winter and spring because the current kicks up
the gravel and cobble on the streambed, disrupting
the worms’ life cycle, he said.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">The worst section of the Klamath River is
from the Shasta River west of Interstate 5 to more
than 80 miles downstream to the Salmon River,
Turner said.</div>
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1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">Brian Person, acting area manager of the
bureau’s Yreka office, said Wednesday that after
consulting with other agencies, they could not
send more water downstream to improve conditions
for the fish.</div>
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1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">“We decided that is not the most optimal
use of a very short water supply at this point,”
Person said.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
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class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15448">The
bureau, as well as other federal and state
wildlife agencies, would continue to monitor the
fish in the river and could at some point decide
to send more water downstream if conditions
change, Person said.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">If the readiness level on the river goes
from orange to red — which means a fish kill is
occurring — there is probably little officials can
do because so little water is available upstream
in the river, Tucker said.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">Even if more water was sent downstream
there probably isn’t enough available to benefit
the young salmon, Tucker said. And if they use
extra water in the spring to help the young salmon
swimming out to sea, there might not be enough
water in the fall to help the salmon returning
from the ocean to spawn.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">During the past few years bureau
officials have had to release more water from the
Trinity River to prevent a different disease from
killing spawning salmon in the Klamath. That
disease, called “ich,” has affected areas below
where the Trinity flows into the Klamath River.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
class="">The young fish dying from the ceratonova
Shasta in the Klamath River are upstream of its
confluence with the Trinity River, Turner said.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
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class="">It is likely a large percentage of this
year’s salmon hatch will not make it out to sea,
which means there will be fewer adult salmon
returning back upstream to spawn in three years,
Tucker said.</div>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
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class="">“I think we’re definitely going to take a
hit when the adults return,” he said.</div>
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