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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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1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
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>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
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>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
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>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
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>
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
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:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
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:
1.125rem; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;"
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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