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Contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma"><br>
Noah Oppenheim, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="tel:(415)%20561-5080" value="+14155615080" target="_blank">415-561-5080</a></span>, </span><a href="mailto:noah@ifrfish.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">noah@ifrfish.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma"><br>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Annelia
Hillman, Klamath Justice Coalition & Yurok Tribal Member, <a href="tel:(707)%20499-6061" value="+17074996061" target="_blank">707-499-6061</a>, </span></span><a href="mailto:norris_annelia@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:blue;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">norris_annelia@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <br>
Regina <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Chichizola</span>, Save California Salmon,<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">  </span></span><a><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-decoration-line:none">541 951-0126</span></a><span style="font-family:Tahoma">,</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><a href="mailto:klamathtrinityriver@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:blue;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">klamathtrinityriver@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(85,85,85);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma"><br>
Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, <a href="tel:(209)%20479-2053" value="+12094792053" target="_blank">209-479-2053</a>, </span><a href="mailto:barbara@restorethedelta.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(5,99,193)">barbara@restorethedelta.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma">Delta & River Advocates Stand Up for Salmon
& Delta Smelt with <br>
Capitol Rally and Comments to Bureau of Reclamation <span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma">SACRAMENTO</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma"> – Today, Delta and river
advocates—including Klamath River Tribal Members, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe,
commercial & recreational fishing groups, and Restore the Delta—rallied at
the State Capitol to voice their opposition against the Trump Administration’s
proposal to maximize water deliveries to the Central Valley Project. After the
rally they  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma">The new federal proposal to increase
Delta exports could impact flows on the Sacramento, Feather, American-San
Joaquin, Trinity, and Klamath Rivers, and comes at a time when salmon returns
and Delta Smelt numbers have reached record lows. <b><span></span></b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><a name="m_-8862489296825895131__gjdgxs"></a><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Klamath Justice Coalition member
and Yurok tribal member Annelia Hillman said, </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma">“The Bureau of Reclamation needs to deeply
consider the greater detrimental environmental effects that are already evident
from manipulating natural water systems. On the Klamath River, we can testify
to the damage that reservoirs and diversions have caused on tribal subsistence
fishing, water quality and all life dependent on it. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma">“We are all aware that maximizing water
flows to the Central Valley does not mean sending clean drinking water to
residents—it means meeting corporate demands that waste water on fracking and
unsustainable big-ag industries.”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma">Hillman went on to say that the Yurok
Tribe is California’s largest Tribe and faced an allocation of one fish per
eight Tribal members due to the Klamath River having the worst salmon run in
history last year. <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Executive Director of The Pacific
Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations,</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> <b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Noah Oppenheim said, </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(34,34,34)">California's commercial
salmon fishery was mortally wounded by the drought, catastrophic water
mismanagement, and excessive south-of-Delta exports. Now the Bureau of
Reclamation is here to twist the knife. What began last year as a non-jeopardy
reinitiation of consultation has become a water grab fueled by greed and
opportunism. If the Bureau gets its way, commercial and recreational salmon
fishing will be lost forever in the Central Valley. Fishermen and anglers from
the Golden Gate to Redding and all the way to Seattle need healthy salmon runs
to survive.”</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Representative of Save California
Salmon, Regina Chichizola said, </span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">"We are facing
the worst salmon runs we have ever had on the Sacramento and Klamath Rivers due
to bad water management during the drought, and the only thing that saved us
from losing our drinking water supply last year was a rainy winter. California
needs to start managing our water responsibly. The Trump plan is the opposite
of responsible, and is especially troubling when the impacts of the Twin
Tunnels and new dam proposals are factored in."</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">  </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Tahoma;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Executive Director of Restore the Delta, Barbara Barrigan Parrilla said,
<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">“The Delta smelt
could be the first fish species to become extinct in the United Since since the
Endangered Species Act was signed in 1973. With only two delta smelt identified
in the last fish survey, state and federal agencies need to focus time, money,
and energy on restoring smelt populations instead of turning up the pumps. If
California loses Delta smelt, the salmon will follow, then larger aquatic
species that rely on salmon runs like Puget Sound Orcas will die off as well.
We are looking at the potential collapse of an entire food chain.”<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Last year the
Klamath River suffered the worst fall run salmon return in history, and the
Sacramento River only had 230,700 projected fall run salmon returning down from<span></span></span></p>

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before. Low salmon runs led to a disaster declaration in California and Oregon
due to the loss of the commercial fisheries. The Trinity River is the Klamath's largest tributary. <span></span></span></p>

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place on the sidewalk outside <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=650+Capitol+Mall&entry=gmail&source=g">650 Capitol Mall</a> at 1 p.m., while the public
meeting will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Stanford Room, 650 Capitol Mall,
Sacramento, CA 95814.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span></span></span></p>

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