I'm sorry to say that in California we have what can only be described as a salmon crisis.
In California, we have unsustainable water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, degraded habitat conditions...
we also have to deal with the other stressors that we know are preventing salmon recovery, even the politically difficult ones, like unsusta...
Last year, this committee examined legislation to increase lethal take of California sea lions below Bonneville Dam.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife survey recently found that cormorant predation on juvenile salmon has no impact on the number of adults returning t...
We must address the scientifically demonstrated root causes of this problem. We must do better.
As we discussed at the hearing on February 10, 2016, data from recent monitoring and focused research all strongly suggest that predation is...
The expectation that this is going to deliver us from endangered status on any of our salmon runs is probably not very realistic.
I was not aware that pikeminnow were worth eating, but perhaps I live and learn.
We are continually having to reprove that fish need water while we talk about these other things.
Nobody is saying do not go and look at predation. Nobody is saying do not experiment, do not try some new things.