Posted on 04/16/2021 8:04:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The King Fisher Flats hatchery, run by The Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project, was almost destroyed during the CZU lightning fire and now it is dealing with a new challenge, the drought.
On Friday, endangered Coho Salmon were released early.
"I want to keep it low so they can't jump over the screen," said Ben Harris, Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project.
These endangered Coho Salmon are very special and 12,000 of them survive the CZU Lightning fire that burned through the hatchery last August.
Now, they're threatened by drought and must all be released by next week.
"The stream flows are going to go down and they're going to go down pretty quick, so we want to get fish out as soon as possible," said Harris.
After the devastating fire they were moved around a couple of times before being shipped back home to the Kingfisher Flats Hatchery, in Davenport.
They've been acclimated before their release into Scott Creek.
"Down here we had four 20-foot diameter pools that were used for rearing captured brood stock," said Mathers Rowley, Chair of the Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project.
The fire melted piping that fed water into the giant pools where Coho were stored-half the stock was lost.
"We have to continue the cycle each year. We can't afford to loose any of the given stock for the fish. It's a very small population so every fish lost is kind of a tragedy," said Rowley.
Not only is the hatchery in need of a major overhaul but so is much of the surrounding infrastructure. The total cost for repairs at least a half-million dollars.
"We've cleaned and hauled a vast majority of burned materials out now, we're going to start construction and fixing the burned PVC pipes, valves; getting these tanks up and running," said Chuck Backman, Facility's Manager.
The salmon released today were about 4-to-6 inches long-they'll make their way out to the Monterey Bay-a small percentage will return after a couple of years having grown a couple of feet and spawn right where their journey began,
Better keep the bears away from that puddle.
Our recent droughts are caused by the CCP.
“China is expanding rain from cloud seeding from 55 billion tons per year to 280 billion tons per year of rain”
Read up on it.
The weather flows west to east from China to the US west coast.
If they take all the water, we get none.
The CCP needs to be stopped from doing this, but it feeds into the demonrat climate change narrative.
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